Help! Character Encoding Problem when exporting from Access to XML

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I export a Access table as a txt file every week to a third party provider
who distributes the file in XML form to online clients. Recently characters
have started to not translate onto sites; usually quotes and apostrophes. I
have been told by the third party service that this is due to a problem from
cutting-and-pasting btw Excel, Word and Access.

How can I 'clean' this data in Access so it is uniform?
 
I export a Access table as a txt file every week to a third party provider
who distributes the file in XML form to online clients. Recently characters
have started to not translate onto sites; usually quotes and apostrophes.I
have been told by the third party service that this is due to a problem from
cutting-and-pasting btw Excel, Word and Access.

How can I 'clean' this data in Access so it is uniform?
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You should know that quotes (double quotes) and apostrophes (single
quotes) have special meaning in database query language.

I'd typically replace single quotes ( ' ) with the ( ` ) character,
located at the extreme left of the keyboard (below the ~ character).
I'd replace double quotes ( " ) with the ( ^ ) character.
 
I won't be surprised if your apostrophes and quotation marks have been
replaced with some fancy characters by the Autocorrect feature of either
Word, Access or Excel.

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ADP has MUCH better support for XML than your Jet does

highly reccomend you look into

SELECT *
FROM EMPLOYEES
FOR XML AUTO
 
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