That will only handle that one character. The problem is there are other characters that are modified as well. After my previous post the other day, I ended up going and making a much more verbose version of that script. Now the bad characters can be referred to by name. Plus I added a silly way of making it display the identity of characters to make it easier to find more that need to be fixed.
#!/usr/bin/perl -n
#use strict;
#use warnings;
use charnames ();
use encoding "utf8";
$|++;
my $chars = {
'HYPHEN' => '-', # \x{2010}
'MINUS SIGN' => '-', # \x{2212}
'FIGURE DASH' => '-', # \x{2012}
'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' => "'", # \x{2212}
'BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL' => '|', # \x{2502}
};
# If the first character is an equal sign, skip it and
# display the identity of each remaining characters.
#
if (/^=/) {
for my $index ( 1 .. length($_) - 1 ) {
my $char = substr( $_, $index++, 1 );
print $char . " "
. sprintf( "\\x{%04X}", ord($char) )
. "\" = '"
. charnames::viacode( ord($char) )
. "'\n" ;
}
} else {
for my $cname ( keys %$chars ) {
my $char = chr( charnames::vianame($cname) );
s/$char/$chars->{$cname}/g;
}
print;
}
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