+#################################################################################
+#
+# demoronizer: Correct Microsoft's abuse of standardized character sets, which
+# leave the browser to (mis)-interpret unknown characters, with
+# sometimes bizarre results on non-MS platforms.
+#
+# credit: ripped from the demoroniser.pl script by:
+# John Walker -- January 1998, http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser
+#
+#################################################################################
+FILTER: demoronizer fixing MS's non-standard use of std charsets.
+
+s/(&\#[0-2]\d\d)\s/$1; /g
+# per Robert Lynch: http://slate.msn.com//?id=2067547, just a guess.
+# Must come before x94 below.
+s/\xE2\x80\x94/ -- /g
+s/\x82/,/g
+#s-\x83-<em>f</em>-g
+s/\x84/,,/g
+s/\x85/.../g
+#s/\x88/^/g
+#s-\x89- °/°°-g
+s/\x8B/</g
+s/\x8C/Oe/g
+s/\x91/`/g
+s/\x92/'/g
+s/(\x93|\x94)/"/g
+# Bullet type character.
+s/\x95/·/g
+s/\x96/-/g
+s/\x97/--/g
+#s-\x98-<sup>~</sup>-g
+#s-\x99-<sup>TM</sup>-g
+# per Robert Lynch.
+s/\x9B/>/g # 155
+