in reply to Stripping funny characters
As I recall, the smartquotes are: \x91-\x94.
you should be able to do
$text=~tr/\x91-\x94/''""/; and clean it up nicely;
If they get pasted to "‘" or such html nasties you'll
need a different approach, of course.
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