fat and thin strings

[Vincent Keunen <nrb!keunen@relay.EU.net>]

(I guess you guys from the other side of the earth are awake, now, so
I'll post my question)

I have looked in the doc examiner at everything about fat and string but
can't find what I want.

I'd like to remove the style attributes from strings.  Is there a
function to do that?  The problem is that (apparently), strings entered
interactively are in another font/style/... than those from the code. 
So I'd like to remove all style information from a string (otherwise,
I'll have to use string-equal everywhere). 

Thanks

Vincent
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