It's almost certianly a "smart quote" character for an apostrophe, which on Mac is ASCII code 213 and on Windows 146.
You probably need some kind of regex-loop to fix four characters at least, single and double opening and closing quotes. If it's Mac for instance, then 210 and 211 should be replaced with " and 212 and 213 with ' -- but this is the quick fix, not the proper one.
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This has to do with the encoding of the document you receive and i always find playing with encodings a bit tricky.
Try to figure out what encoding the Quark file is in (from what platform is it?) and then convert it to an encoding perl can handle (preferably Unicode encoding UTF-8).
You might also want to read a little about perl unicode support and I18n | [reply] |
Perhaps a job for Text::Iconv? CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law
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