Converting from one encoding to another still gives me trouble, and I've not tried what you're using here. (In other words, take this with a grain of salt.) However, I notice that using Data::Dumper to show the values of the two vars after the encode-decode-encode calls gives values that look "too different" to me:

$VAR1 = '“';
$VAR1 = '�';

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My terminal is set up to use UTF-8, so instead of the numeric HTML entities you see above I get the equivalent hex-digits-in-a-box characters. Same deal. Here's what I see in Emacs:

$VAR1 = 'ââ\202¬Å\223';
$VAR1 = 'ââ\202¬ï¿½';

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So with the caveat that this is a W.A.G., it looks to me as if maybe the mangling occurs before the calls to repair_double().

In reply to Re: Why does Encode::Repair only correctly fix one of these two tandem characters? by Bethany
in thread Why does Encode::Repair only correctly fix one of these two tandem characters? by Jim

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