Don't be afraid to put non ASCII characters in your source code. Use UTF-8 (which you are probably already doing anyway since the curly quotes aren't available in too many other encodings) and put this pragma in your source code:
use utf8;
This is encouraged! From the utf8 manpage:
The "use utf8" pragma tells the Perl parser to allow UTF-8 in the program text in the current lexical scope (allow UTF-EBCDIC on EBCDIC
based platforms). The "no utf8" pragma tells Perl to switch back to
treating the source text as literal bytes in the current lexical scope.
This pragma is primarily a compatibility device. Perl versions earlier
than 5.6 allowed arbitrary bytes in source code, whereas in future we
would like to standardize on the UTF-8 encoding for source text.
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<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
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