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UTF8 Curly Quotes To ASCII

04.09.2005
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        Here's a cheap hack to convert UTF8 curly quotes to ASCII (but try to use CPAN module instead of this if you can).


 $xml =~ s/\xe2\x80\x99/\'/gs;
 $xml =~ s/\xe2\x80\x98/\'/gs;
 $xml =~ s/\xe2\x80\x9c/\"/gs;
 $xml =~ s/\xe2\x80\x9d/\"/gs;
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