I am using antiword to parse a word document:

open ("ANTIWORD", "-|", "/usr/local/bin/antiword", "-mUTF-8.txt", "$filename") or die "Couldn't fork: $!\n";

Unfortunately, certain characters come up as "<E2><80><99>" for ' when I pipe the output to more. If I just output it, I get " '". I obviously don't want "<E2><80><99>" or " '" (I don't want the extra space) to appear in my database so I'd like to substitute it for '. I tried the following

$line =~ s/<E2><80><99>/'/g;

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But it doesn't work. Also if I redirect the output to a file, instead of "<E2><80><99>" I get "?~@~Y" but

$line =~ s/\?~@~Y/'/g;

Doesn't work either... any ideas as to what is causing it and how I can fix it?

In reply to weird character problems by MCS

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