Supported characters

I've noticed that some characters are not being retained between XML and 
the control.  For instance, the copyright symbol gets converted to a 
copyright symbol plus some strange character.  I enter the copyright 
symbol on my Mac by pressing option-G.  Also, I copied and pasted some 
text into it that contained the "smart" quote character for single-quote 
(the slightly bent apostrophe) and it gets converted to a strange 'i' 
character with an accent mark.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?  I'm just taking the xml provided 
from one control and passing it to another control.

I don't know if this helps, but I saw behavior like this when I started 
using Memory blocks to walk character arrays.  I would use a memory 
block with the assumption that it would be faster than splitting a 
string into an array.  The problem is the interpretation of some 
characters.  Now, to make a character array I use:

Dim stringArray() As String = Split("My String")

And that will properly retain the non-ASCII characters.

Has anyone else noticed this character support issue?

- Ryan
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