Thanks for your response david Here is some of the raw html. 
<br>
Mraz is known for “Remedy (I Won’t Worry),” which was the first single
+ off his first album, “Waiting for My Rocket to Come.” His second alb
+um, “Mr. A-Z,” was released in July.
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I'm guessing that the special characters in the html are made from ascii characters. The script is so easy, its just an instance of LWP. 
my $content = get $url;
die "Couldn't get $url" unless defined $content;

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An example url from above

The $url varies between websites. At first, the output of the script is going into a plain txt file, but will be later imported into a mysql database (however I have not got that far yet - still trying to figure this part out)

I then simply have some regular expressions to get correct text.

In reply to Re^2: Strange Characters - Different Encoding? by JukeBox
in thread Strange Characters - Different Encoding? by JukeBox

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