I know that this question is slightly off-topic, but still seems relevant. I am unable to download and run 1nickt's solution Re: Regex: matching any Number then a hyphen to a recent question because of a single non-ascii character. While displaying the node in the browser 'Chrome' on Windows 7, I click on the 'download' button. The file displays correctly. I right-click and select 'save as' then save as I.pl. When I run the file, I get the following error: 
C:\Users\Bill\forums\monks>perl I.pl
1..3
Malformed UTF-8 character: \x96 (unexpected continuation byte 0x96, wi
+th no prec
eding start byte) at I.pl line 9.
Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at I.pl line 9.

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Using Internet explorer is slightly different, but no better. I have also tried cut-and-paste into the editor 'gvim'. It does not even display correctly. No luck saving it to a file. What is the recommended way to download and edit files containing UTF-8 characters from perlmonks into windows?

Sorry if I have overlooked the tutorial that I need.

Bill

In reply to Malformed UTF-8 character by BillKSmith

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