I have a bunch of html files with a specific non-printing character I want to get rid of. For example, in the string "Children's" ... the apostrophe appears to be a multibyte character as shown below: 
% grep "Children" index.html | od -c 
0003060  C   h   i   l   d   r   e   n 342 200 231   s

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For that file I can run the following command to fix it: 
% tr -s '\342\200\231' \' < file.html

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but since I have a ton of files scattered everywhere, I'd like to be able to do something like the following: 
% perl -i -pe "s/\342\200\231/'/g" `find /home -name "*.html"`

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...but no luck. I've read the part of perlfaq6 addressing this but it seems to say you can do this if you just search for the byte as if it was separate bytes...like what I have above...but there's a good chance I'm misunderstanding. Has anybody done something similar or have any suggestions?

In reply to multibyte match works with tr but not in perl?? by the_sheriff

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