The page in the URL above gives an encoding of iso8859-1, but contains some characters from the cp-1252 character set (specifically the quote signs, hex values 91-94, and minus sign, x96 and x97). Swap those out for ASCII characters and your problem should disappear:

tr/\x93-\x94/\x22/;
tr/\x91-\x92/\x27/;
tr/\x96-\x97/\x2d/;

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Note: you should AFAIK be able to do this with the Encode or Text::Iconv modules instead of messing with the character values directly, but somehow this didn't work for me when trying it on the text (possibly because of the mixed encoding).

Update: added minus sign.


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In reply to Re^3: Strange Characters - Different Encoding? by tirwhan
in thread Strange Characters - Different Encoding? by JukeBox

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