The 'Remove (5)' 'Sym.' does not work, and the 'Remove (5)' 'High' does not work, which says that it removes high-ASCII characters (chars from 128 to 255)
I believe that the smart quotes, en dash, em dash characters are not part of ASCII, however they are listed as part of ANSI / Unicode character sets, as indicated here: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/ansi_ascii_character_chart.html
I tried using Character Translations, however that did not recognize the ANSI character codes. The only way I have found so far is to copy and paste the characters in the 'Repl. (3)' dialog, however I have to do that for every character, so it's not very efficient. I would like to find a better way if possible.
I currently use AutoHotkey to make a script to accomplish some automation, although it doesn't always work that great. These are the character codes in particular I am looking to remove / replace:
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replace: Left Open Double Quotation Mark {U+201C} {ASC 0147}
replace: Right Close Double Quotation Mark {U+201D} {ASC 0148}
...with: Neutral Vertical Double Quotation Mark {U+0022} {ASC 0034}
replace: Left Open Single Quotation Mark {U+2018} {ASC 0145}
replace: Right Close Single Quotation Mark {U+2019} {ASC 0146}
...with: Neutral Vertical Apostrophe {U+0027} {ASC 0039}
replace: En Dash {U+2013} {ASC 0150}
replace: Em Dash {U+2014} {ASC 0151}
...with: Hyphen {U+2010} {ASC 0045}
Thanks.