Re^2: regexing for non-standard characters...

An extra alternative:

use charnames ':full';
...
print (charnames::viacode( ord($ch)));   # EM DASH
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Which is of course nothing you couldn't figure out using a Unicode lookup table (like "Character Map" on Windows) once you know the code point.

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