Believe it or not this sounds fairly easy. The real problem is when you have no proper quote marks: but these " and '. Then there is a very slippery set of heuristics to see what they become. In your case you're just looking to swap balanced “ … ” with balanced ‘ … ’ and vice versa (might need a placeholder pass between the two) knowing you can leave alone \w’\w (contractions) and ’\w (shortened terms like ’cause for because). I've never used it but I suspect you just need to adapt these ideas to work with Text::Balanced and whatever RTF parser you like. I personally would keep the utf8 but there is nothing wrong with using entities instead if you're more comfortable with them (encode them to entities up front to save utf8 woes).

For spelling, IIRC, there are only a couple of hundred words which are different. Just dig up that list and turn it into a hash and bingo.

In reply to Re: Perl to convert US to UK punctuation/spelling? by Your Mother
in thread Perl to convert US to UK punctuation/spelling? by freewheel

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