use utf8; use Encode qw(encode_utf8); use JSON; use Data::Dumper; my $data = qq( { "cat" : "text – abcd" } ); my $json_data = encode_utf8( $data ); my $perl_hash = decode_json( $json_data ); print Dumper($perl_hash);

I am getting following error when executing the code.

$VAR1 = { 'cat' => "text \x{2013} abcd" };

I need the output like "text – abcd". Is thr any module other than(Text::Unidecode), or a method of converting these characters like ',",-,.,? to simple ASCII characters?

Any help from you guys would be appreciated greatly.

In reply to Malformed UTF-8 character by Yllar

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