diff --git a/se5/RemoveUnicodeCharacters/MainWindow.axaml.cs b/se5/RemoveUnicodeCharacters/MainWindow.axaml.cs
index 9394c65..49765ea 100644
--- a/se5/RemoveUnicodeCharacters/MainWindow.axaml.cs
+++ b/se5/RemoveUnicodeCharacters/MainWindow.axaml.cs
@@ -16,13 +16,6 @@ namespace SubtitleEdit.Plugins.RemoveUnicodeCharacters;
 
 public partial class MainWindow : Window
 {
-    /// <summary>Built-in default replacements (used when the user has no persisted setting for a character).</summary>
-    private static readonly Dictionary<char, string> DefaultReplacements = new()
-    {
-        ['♪'] = "#",
-        ['♫'] = "#",
-    };
-
     private readonly PluginRequest _request;
     private readonly List<SrtBlock> _blocks;
     private readonly Dictionary<string, string> _persistedReplacements;
@@ -125,7 +118,7 @@ private string ResolveDefaultReplacement(char c)
         {
             return persisted;
         }
-        return DefaultReplacements.TryGetValue(c, out var builtIn) ? builtIn : string.Empty;
+        return UnicodeDefaults.Map.TryGetValue(c, out var builtIn) ? builtIn : string.Empty;
     }
 
     private void UpdateUiForRows()
diff --git a/se5/RemoveUnicodeCharacters/UnicodeDefaults.cs b/se5/RemoveUnicodeCharacters/UnicodeDefaults.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..21c47a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/se5/RemoveUnicodeCharacters/UnicodeDefaults.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+
+namespace SubtitleEdit.Plugins.RemoveUnicodeCharacters;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Built-in suggested replacements for non-ANSI characters that have a near-lossless
+/// or universally understood ASCII equivalent. Used as the seed value for the
+/// "Replace with" column when the user has no persisted setting for a character.
+/// Debatable cases (bullets, arrows, math, trademark, music accidentals) are
+/// deliberately omitted - the UI shows them blank so the user picks per row.
+/// </summary>
+internal static class UnicodeDefaults
+{
+    public static readonly Dictionary<char, string> Map = new()
+    {
+        // Smart quotes -> straight ASCII quotes
+        ['‘'] = "'",   // ' left single quotation mark
+        ['’'] = "'",   // ' right single quotation mark
+        ['‚'] = ",",   // ‚ single low-9 quotation mark
+        ['‛'] = "'",   // ‛ single high-reversed-9
+        ['“'] = "\"",  // " left double quotation mark
+        ['”'] = "\"",  // " right double quotation mark
+        ['„'] = "\"",  // „ double low-9 quotation mark
+        ['‟'] = "\"",  // ‟ double high-reversed-9
+
+        // Hyphens / dashes -> hyphen-minus
+        ['‐'] = "-",   // ‐ hyphen
+        ['‑'] = "-",   // ‑ non-breaking hyphen
+        ['‒'] = "-",   // ‒ figure dash
+        ['–'] = "-",   // – en dash
+        ['—'] = "-",   // — em dash
+        ['―'] = "-",   // ― horizontal bar
+        ['−'] = "-",   // − minus sign
+
+        // Ellipses / dot leaders
+        ['․'] = ".",   // ․ one-dot leader
+        ['‥'] = "..",  // ‥ two-dot leader
+        ['…'] = "...", // … horizontal ellipsis
+
+        // Music notes (note heads, not accidentals)
+        ['♩'] = "#",   // ♩ quarter note
+        ['♪'] = "#",   // ♪ eighth note
+        ['♫'] = "#",   // ♫ beamed eighth notes
+        ['♬'] = "#",   // ♬ beamed sixteenth notes
+
+        // Wide / narrow space variants -> regular space
+        [' '] = " ",   // en quad
+        [' '] = " ",   // em quad
+        [' '] = " ",   // en space
+        [' '] = " ",   // em space
+        [' '] = " ",   // three-per-em space
+        [' '] = " ",   // four-per-em space
+        [' '] = " ",   // six-per-em space
+        [' '] = " ",   // figure space
+        [' '] = " ",   // punctuation space
+        [' '] = " ",   // thin space
+        [' '] = " ",   // hair space
+        [' '] = " ",   // narrow no-break space
+        [' '] = " ",   // medium mathematical space
+        ['　'] = " ",   // ideographic space
+
+        // Zero-width and joiner controls -> remove
+        ['​'] = "",    // zero-width space
+        ['‌'] = "",    // zero-width non-joiner
+        ['‍'] = "",    // zero-width joiner
+        ['⁠'] = "",    // word joiner
+        [''] = "",    // zero-width no-break space / BOM
+    };
+}