# Remove spaces on either end of an em-dash or ellipsis.
s,[[:space:]]--[[:space:]],\&\#8212;,g
s,[[:space:]]\.\.\.[[:space:]],\&\#8230;,g

# Explicitly handle curly double quotes before curly single quotes.
s,"`,\&\#8220;,g
s,`",\&\#8221;,g
s,'`,\&\#8216;,g
s,`',\&\#8217;,g

# Diacritics.
s,\ç,\&\#231;,g
s,\è,\&\#232;,g
s,\é,\&\#233;,g
s,\ï,\&\#239;,g

# Remove Asciidoc comments now, for the sake of getting more accurate
# wordcounts.
s,//.*,,g