A somewhat more limited approach to the problem taken on in Converting and cleaning Word's HTML export to valid HTML: change the %char2entity hash in HTML::Entities to include the proper translations of those non-ISO characters ([\200-\237]) that MSOffice apps always seem to use when you save as HTML.

This snippet must (clearly) be inserted or required in at some point between use HTML::Entities and the first time you call encode_entities.

Note that many browsers will hork up these entities anyway, but at least the enterprising folks viewing your source will know what you meant. :-)

@HTML::Entities::char2entity{ map chr, 128 .. 159 } =
  qw (
        €
        
        ‚
        ƒ
        „
        …
        †
        ‡
        ˆ
        ‰
        Š
        ‹
        Œ
        
        Ž
        
        
        ‘
        ’
        “
        ”
        •
        –
        —
        ˜
        ™
        š
        ›
        œ
        
        ž
        Ÿ
     );

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