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Maybe hit the remainder with Text::Unidecode if you don't want any UTF-8 output?
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Re^5: Hacker News titles using U+2013 EN DASH
by jdporter (Paladin) on Jan 11, 2024 at 04:36 UTC
    Text::Unidecode

    Is that in the standard library? I don't have the ability to install modules on this system. (Maybe Corion can do it.)

    And would this be all I need? i.e. will it cover the four that I've already done?

    Thanks!

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      Definitely a cpan module. 
      perl -E 'use Text::Unidecode; say unidecode("\x{2016} \x{2019} \x{201C
+} \x{201D}")'
|| ' " "

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      are you sure you had the right codepoint above for 2016?

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[d/l]

        No, that was a typo; I meant 2013.

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