Hi mscudder!

I think I would approach this from the other direction i.e. convert the HTML entities to a suitable equivalent.

Tables of entities can be found at w3c. There are around 200 in total but you are probably going to be interested in about a dozen or so.

You could build a hash and then replace the entities: 

my %lookup = (
 2019 => ', # replace &rsqu with an apostrophe
 2010 => -, # hyphen etc.
);

$text = s/(.)/$lookup{$1}?$lookup{$1}:$1/eg;

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See The Björk Situation for a similar discussion on accents. My attempt (similar to the above) is much improved on by thundergnat and a useful discussion with rhesa on the perils of 'normalisation' (you are losing detail).

Hope this helps

In reply to Re: unicode normalization by wfsp
in thread unicode normalization by mscudder

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