in reply to Convert HTML symbols to equivalent Unicode

use Encode;
my $unicode = encode("UTF8", $ascii);

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Re^2: Convert HTML symbols to equivalent Unicode
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 14, 2009 at 13:00 UTC
    If you want 00AE, you want UCS2, not UTF8
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