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OSJMgr Visualforce Word Doc Rich Text Area Field Rendering Issues
I am having rendering issues when I create a word doc from a visualforce page containing a Rich Text Area field. The spaces after a period render as a  (capital A caret). It seems this is some type of text encoding translation error. Any idea how to fix this?
I have tried using put outputField and outputText with escape="false". It's a real annoyance to my users to have edit these out before they save the word doc.
Ha! I found the answer by accident via Google. Apparently, you need to set the charset to "Windows-1252" in the contentType portion of the Page tag. The following worked:
<apex:page contentType="application/ms-word; charset=Windows-1252#