I'm trying to convert these slanted quotes to the numeric code for html output. Gotten some great advice from jeffa and bart. But my lowly perl mind is still boggled by some of there one-lining magick. I was going to use HTML::Entities but i need this to run on Win32 also. ppm fails on install. Looked at the source for HTML::Entities as a guide, but more advanced perl was clouding my understanding. I've been told my solution involves something like: 
my %subst = map { chr($_) => qq|&#$_;|} 0..255;

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But any attempts to put this in effect inside a script are dead-ends. And help would be appreciated. 
my $TXT = <<EOM;
Those oranges are 50¢
EOM
print &convert($TXT);
sub convert{
my $word = $_[0];
#ARGH!
return $word;
}###########################

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So my output should be 
Those oranges are 50&#162;

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In reply to High-bit ISO Latin character conversion problem. by true

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