Re: Replacing non ascii in string

[Kenosis]

Perhaps Text::Unidecode would be helpful (please forgive the lack of complete code formatting, as doing so eliminates displaying the characters the module decodes):

use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8;
use Text::Unidecode;

my $string = q/‘ and ’ “ and ” and ä/;

print unidecode($string);

Output:

' and ' " and " and a