OK, I've had another stab at this.

I used wget to pull down the proxied page that shows the problem.

Looking at the html file with less, I see this where the "bad" char is:

        | <a href="/2/about.html">About Us</a> | <a href="/2/service.h
+tml">We
<U+0092>re 
        About Service</a>
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If I hexdump the file, the same fragment looks like this:

00002110  2f 32 2f 73 65 72 76 69  63 65 2e 68 74 6d 6c 22  |/2/servic
+e.html"|
00002120  3e 57 65 c2 92 72 65 20  0d 0a 20 20 20 20 20 20  |>We..re .
+.      |
00002130  20 20 41 62 6f 75 74 20  53 65 72 76 69 63 65 3c  |  About S
+ervice<|
[download]

Now, if I copy the <U+0092> binary character directly from my browser and paste it into the perl script, the search and replace works - it finds that character and I can replace it with the correct HTML entity - &#8217; in this case.

Here's some more code. This is how I am generating the rules, and using the utf8 character:

my @rules = (
        {   From  => qq{<92>},
            To    => q{&#8217;},
            Flags => q{he},
        }
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In the example above, <92> is a binary character that shows up in vim as "<92>". If I use less to display the file, it shows up as <U+0092> What I have so far failed to do is to create that binary character programmatically, i.e. using \x{} escapes, or pack(...) or any other techniques.

It seems that if I use the utf8 character directly, perl does the write thing when I print it, but when I try to create the character indirectly I never qute get it right.

R.

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