Text from phones or apps like Word will result in Unicode-ish characters like “ instead of ". This gets rid of at least most of them. It also decodes URLs and removes Wikipedia reference markers in case that's needed. 🤷♀️
Pasting into the top textarea will automatically convert and copy the resultant output. Otherwise, click the bottom textarea to put the result on your clipboard.
Characters: “ ” ‘ ’ © ® ™ • · … – — ′ ″
Ligatures: Ꜳ ꜳ Æ æ Ꜵ ꜵ Ꜷ ꜷ Ꜹ ꜹ Ꜻ ꜻ Ꜽ ꜽ 🙰 ff ffi ffl fi fl Ƕ ƕ ℔ Ỻ ỻ Œ œ Ꝏ ꝏ ꭢ ẞ ß st ſt Ꜩ ꜩ ᵫ ꭣ Ꝡ ꝡ Ꟗ ꟗ ꟕ ꟓ
Wikipedia: [1] [42] [197] [a] [b] [z]