G'day hsmyers,

When your source code contains UTF-8, you need to tell Perl about this. You do this with the utf8 pragma. See that documentation for more complete details on that (somewhat oversimplified) advice.

Here's my test: 

#!/usr/bin/env perl -l

use strict;
use warnings;
#use utf8;

use HTML::Entities qw{encode_entities};

my $dash = 'DASH: "-"';
my $emdash = 'EMDASH: "—"';
my $endash = 'ENDASH: "–"';

print encode_entities($_) for ($dash, $emdash, $endash);

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Output from this code: 

DASH: "-"
EMDASH: "—"
ENDASH: "–"

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Output after uncommenting "#use utf8;": 

DASH: "-"
EMDASH: "—"
ENDASH: "–"

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— Ken

In reply to Re: A problem with dash typography by kcott
in thread A problem with dash typography by hsmyers

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