in reply to malformed UTF-8 character in JSON string in perl

Is [there] any module other than Text::Unidecode, or a method of converting these characters like ',",-,.,? to simple ASCII characters?
Why do you not want to use Text::Unidecode? It does exactly what you are requesting: 
use utf8;
use JSON;
use Encode qw(encode_utf8);
use Text::Unidecode;

my $data = qq( { "cat" : "text – abcd  “ ’ ” ‘" } );
my $json_data = encode_utf8( $data );
my $perl_hash = decode_json( $json_data );
while ( my($k,$v) = each %$perl_hash ) {
    unidecode($v);
    print "$k => $v\n";
}

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Output: 
cat => text - abcd  " ' " '

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Re^2: malformed UTF-8 character in JSON string in perl
by Yllar (Novice) on Aug 11, 2015 at 15:19 UTC

    Hi Tangent

    In below statements which statement did you use in your code?

    1) "text - abcd “

    2) "text – abcd “

    would you please try with the second statement and see what output you are getting?

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      I used the second one. It might be easier to use the names - in the following I input plain dash "-", en dash "–" and em dash "—" and the output is plain dash, plain dash, double plain dash: 
      "text - – —" input
"text - - --" output

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        Hi Tangent

        Would you please use the statements that I mentioned. I mean please copy and paste in your script and try please.

        If you see in the second statement "-" is not a general hyphen or dash. It is a special symbol.

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