Hey Perl Monks, Just looking for some advice, I have a small script, that retrieves text from various websites and then consolidates them into a database. Now, some of the text on one of the pages has recently changed, now they seem to be using different html characters instead of the standard, For example: 
“ instead of " and ’ instead of '

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When I parse this data and attempt to put it into the database is comes out with: 
It?~@~Ys going to be a scorcher with tomorrow?~@~Ys ?~@~\rainy day?~@~
+] parade. They?~@~Yre just....

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Looks like it is some sort of encoding problem. How do I strip the string of these characters? or How do I re-encode them? *stumped* Thanks!

In reply to Strange Characters - Different Encoding? by JukeBox

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