Hi all, thank you so much for your comments and suggestions, and many apologies for my bad linking and explanations. Some responses:

First off, I'm not sure why (ww) you don't see the What's new string. Perhaps these screen grabs will help describe what I'm talking about, from the above URL (and I hope I'm not breaking a rule here):

pic 1

pic 2

2nd, I believe your example #2 is the smart quote I'm discussing, though it appears slightly differently in my text editor than it does in my browser. Here's a paste of the text here:

What’s new

[download]

As for my specific Perl code:

my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $response = $browser->get( "http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocente
+r/brjrules/v7r0m3/basic/tocView.jsp?toc=/com.ibm.websphere.ilog.jrule
+s.doc/toc.xml" );
my $content = $$response{_content}; ## yes inefficient coding, but it 
+works
open(OUT, ">content.html");
print OUT $content;
close(OUT);

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Adding utf8::decode to that, as suggested:

utf8::decode($content);

$content =~ s { ([\x00-\x08\x0B\x0C\x0E-\x1F\x80-\x{1FFFFF}]) }
              { sprintf('[U+%04X]', ord($1)) }gex;

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produces this:

What[U+2019]s new

[download]

At least it's finding it! But I confess I don't follow the regex there (I'm still learning...), and is there some shortcut in the code I'm missing?

Sorry if I'm asking dumb questions here or just not getting it. And I would like to better understand that regex -- is there some place to learn more about that?

Thank you all once again.

In reply to Re^2: converting smart quotes by slugger415
in thread converting smart quotes by slugger415

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