G'day ait,

The characters, “ and ”, are U+201C and U+201D. The numbers \342\200\234 and \342\200\235 are the octal values of the bytes that make up those characters.

You can break those characters into their constituent bytes and check the octal values like this: 

$ perl -C -E '
    my $x = "\x{201c}S\x{201d}";
    say $x;
    {
        use bytes;
        printf "%vo\n", $x;
    }
'
“S”
342.200.234.123.342.200.235

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See also: bytes noting the emboldened warning; and the vector flag information in sprintf.

— Ken

In reply to Re: How to interpret characters in Devel::Peek CUR by kcott
in thread How to interpret characters in Devel::Peek CUR by ait

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