Unrecognized character \x92 ERROR

wood estate has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all, I'm beginner to learn perl script . I follow the doc to learn perl . But I got below error as below when I start to run @al. Anyone have idea ? thanks for your help ! script :

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Example 3.5 - splice

@alpha = (’a’ .. ’z’);
splice @alpha, 4, 5, map(uc, @alpha[4 .. 8]);
$, = ’ ’;
print @alpha;
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error :

C:\begperl>splice3.pl
Unrecognized character \x92; marked by <-- HERE after @alpha = (<-- HE
+RE near co
lumn 11 at C:\begperl\splice3.pl line 4.
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my perl version is ActivePerl 5.20.1 Build 2000 (64-bit )

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Re: Unrecognized character \x92 ERROR by choroba (Cardinal) on Jan 05, 2015 at 10:11 UTC
Perl doesn't understand the "smart" quotes `’a’` [download] Use the dumb ones: `'a'` [download] لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Unrecognized character \x92 ERROR by pme (Monsignor) on Jan 05, 2015 at 14:33 UTC
Hi wood_estate, Be careful if you copy/paste code snippets from your browser to your editor. Always check the apostrophes. Lots of page has unicode encoding, thus the ' can be is unicoded (0x2019) what is different from the ASCII value: 0x27. As choroba said above: perl understand dumb quotes only.	[reply]
Re: Unrecognized character \x92 ERROR by Anonymous Monk on Jan 05, 2015 at 15:43 UTC
I follow the doc to learn perl . Are you reading "Perl 5 Tutorial" by Chan Bernard Ki Hong? (`http://www.cbkihong.com/index.pl?op=perltut&lang=e`) Be aware that it is 11 years old now, and some of the code examples are showing their age, such as not using strict or the three-arg open. (Plus I imagine having to change all those single quotes and removing line numbers will get a little annoying.) There are lots of other places to learn Perl, lots of books including Learning Perl, or the resources on this site.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Unrecognized character \x92 ERROR by wood estate (Initiate) on Jan 06, 2015 at 02:06 UTC
Thanks for your all expert ! the problem have been resolved . Also, I will take your suggestion to learn the Perl again.	[reply]