Thank you for your reply. I've written a short program to show the problem: 

use HTML::TokeParser;
use strict;

local $/;
my $lines = <DATA>;
my $tok_par = HTML::TokeParser->new(\$lines);
my $tok_inf = $tok_par->get_token ;
my $tok_typ = shift @{$tok_inf};
print "Type: $tok_typ \n" ;
my $title =  $tok_par->get_text() || "<NO TITLE FOUND>";
print "Title: $title \n" ;
__END__
<title>egrave: &egrave; : eacute: &eacute; : rsquo: &rsquo; : lsquo: &
+lsquo;</title>

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I've now tested this at home, and with my web host. At home it works as it should:

Title: egrave: è : eacute: é : rsquo: ’ : lsquo: ‘

At the web host it produces the results previously described:

Title: egrave: è : eacute: é : rsquo: ’ : lsquo: ‘

In case it makes a difference, at home I have:

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i586-linux-thread-multi

and the web host has:

This is perl, v5.8.5 built for i386-linux-thread-multi

Do you know if this behaviour is a difference between 5.8.5 and 5.8.8? Thank you for any further advice!

In reply to Re^2: HTML::TokeParser, get_text scrambling rsquo and lsquo by tridral
in thread HTML::TokeParser, get_text scrambling rsquo and lsquo by tridral

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