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in reply to PERL UNIX and strangeness and char conversion

""more" and those editors are all correct. They are just showing a different representation of the same unprintable character.

perl -pe 'tr/\x80-\xff/?/' <oldfile >convertedfile

There. I've converted all that strangeness to a plain ASCII ? just like you asked.