I came across characters with incorrect encodings in a web-page I was
trying to validate. [Incorrect, that is, in context. I'm sure they
were fine in MS Word or wherever they originated.]
So, one character is a smart, single quote:
'
and when I identify it using BBEdit's ASCII table, it says it's
"code" is 8217 and its "escape" is %2019.
What would be the representation of this character in Perl's
\-syntax? I tried \x8217 and \x2019, but they didn't match in
regexes. I'm obviously a bit out of my depth in terms of what that
character is, to Perl. Do I need to "use utf8"? That didn't seem to
work either.
TIA,
jh
