Re^3: Replacing non ascii in string

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Sounds like an encoding problem. Is your string utf-8? (Encode, $decoded_str = decode('utf-8', $str)) Did you use utf8 to get your literals parsed as such?

(You see, those fancy apostrophes are represented as three bytes. If Perl thinks we're still in ascii-land (binary-land), it sees the transliteration as tr/\xe2\x80\x99/'/ -- effectively changing any of those three bytes to an apostrophe.)

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Re^4: Replacing non ascii in string by IanD (Initiate) on Feb 05, 2013 at 05:54 UTC
Bingo - that makes sense. Sorted now, thanks for your assistance.	[reply]

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