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naChoZ
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I find this very annoying also. It's because the perldoc renderer is doing silly things like replacing regular '-' dash/hyphen characters with chr(226) (instead of the normal chr(45) character) and replacing single ticks with the "prettier" version of the single quote. I have not been able to figure out how to get this to display properly without switching completely to raw or text mode.
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My solution was to bind a key in vim to run this silly little script. So whenever I paste some code from some perldoc I'm viewing, I run this over the code.
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<code>
#!/usr/bin/perl -n
s/‐/-/g;
s/−/-/g;
s/’/'/g;
print;
</code>
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I notice it renders oddly in the perlmonks node, but you get the idea. I literally just copy and pasted the offending symbol into this script.
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naChoZ
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