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Why are TABs replaced with a series of   in RadEditor?

PROBLEM

When cutting and pasting tabbed text from MS Word into RadEditor, it replaces all the tabs with a series of " " entities.

REASON

In HTML, there is no equivalent of the TAB character. Word uses special characters for TAB which are not recognized by the browser.

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