title: Programmatically C# remove special characters from HTML source
body: <p>Issue - I am downloading an excel file from an online service. The problem is that it downloads as an XLS extention, but when you do a Save As its actually a WebPage type HTML. What I have to do is open excel and save as Excel file. When I import the file programmatically to Postgres, the data imports fine no problem. The problem is when clicking the save from PgAdmin and the CSV shows those special characters. They look like foreign characters.</p>
  <p>However, lets go back to the online service. If I manually copy the list and paste it into Notepad (which strips those characters)...then copy the list back into an excel file. Then there is no issue.</p>
  <p>Question is: How to strip these characters programmatically instead of doing it manually with Notepad?
  Example of the issue: Look at the Image. The date time has the special character and also the other cell should say &quot;FILLER 5&quot;
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/nz7aO.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/nz7aO.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>