I don't understand if you do or if you don't want these special characters. Anyway, they are in Microsoft's extension to ISO-Latin-1, known as "CODE PAGE 1252".

If you do want these characters, you can look up their codes at the character codes list on unicode.org's website, and simply insert them with Perl. (These extension characters are all in the range 0x80-0x9F.)

If you don't: you should realize that Word has a tendency to automatically replace simple ASCII quotes in documents with so-called "smart quotes", using a heuristic algorithm considering the neighboring characters to decide whether a left- or a right quote may need to be inserted. If you want plain ASCII, you have to fiurst turn this off.

HTH.

In reply to Re: Replacing none alpha/numeric characters in a Word document by bart
in thread Replacing none alpha/numeric characters in a Word document by merrymonk

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