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Try using the html entity for apostrophe, which is either ' or '.

As an aside, ' may not work under IE; see HTML Entities.

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Re^2: How to display an apostrophe in pod2usage help output.
by dbmathis (Scribe) on Sep 16, 2007 at 16:08 UTC
    So I am talking about the pod2usage output to the a terminal window. The apostrophes below show up as a strange 'a'.

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The following is an example of this script:

perlsql -query /home/dmathis/cand_query -to 'dbmathis@test.com'
-filename 'filename.xls' -database schema -dbserver db13
-node Res_Score -xmlcol RawXML -header

or

perlsql -query /home/dmathis/cand_query -to 'david@perl.com'
-filename 'filename.xls' -database test -dbserver db13
-node Scorebourd+score -xmlcol RawXML -header

or

perlsql -query ora_query -to 'anders@jungle.org' -dbserver oraserver
-dbuser orauser -dbpassword somepass -oracle -delimiter '\t'.

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