The best solution probably it to download notepad++, but it seems like overkill to learn another editor to solve such a rare problem.

As much as it pains me to say it (given my Notepad++ fandom), it does seem like overkill. But iconv.exe comes with my Strawberry perl... and if it does with yours, then it can handle the translation. (Or gnuwin32's iconv). I believe one of the following two would properly translate the CP1252 encoding of the emdash into UTF-8. 

iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf-8 savedfile > outfile.pl
iconv -f CP1252 -t utf-8 savedfile > outfile.pl

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(Of course, the other fix is to not use utf8; after you download the script; perl will default to your native Windows encoding {if I understand things correctly}, so that should work -- at least, it did for me from that same downloaded source code.)

In reply to Re^3: Malformed UTF-8 character by pryrt
in thread Malformed UTF-8 character by BillKSmith

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