I would like to replace all the special characters such as apostrophe(not single quote), double quote and any other characters(which looks differently on ms word) with single quote, double quote but not limited only these two.
I may replace it by manually using regex or string's replace by finding the unicode value of these characters like re.sub("\u0XXXX", "'", "<apostrophe>")
But I believe there may be a built in function which will replace if there is a exact match and keep as is if it does not have like in PHP iconv("ISO-XXX", "UTF-8//TRANSLIT//IGNORE").
eg: ’ to ', ˮ - " any such characters