I found that, to delete the strange characters, you have to go through and replace all the apostrophe marks with apostrophe marks. Seriously.
See your post as I copied it above?
Now look at it:
Surely there's a way to fix these unusual characters in these posts.
Or you can just use a simple website to clean-up the entire article in just a couple of clicks, no individual edits.
http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html
Since this site was able to remove all the Italians, it shouldn't be too hard to get rid of the apostrophes..........