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in thread Malformed UTF-8 character

The best solution probably it to download notepad++, but it seems like overkill to learn another editor to solve such a rare problem.

As much as it pains me to say it (given my Notepad++ fandom), it does seem like overkill. But iconv.exe comes with my Strawberry perl... and if it does with yours, then it can handle the translation. (Or gnuwin32's iconv). I believe one of the following two would properly translate the CP1252 encoding of the emdash into UTF-8. 

iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf-8 savedfile > outfile.pl
iconv -f CP1252 -t utf-8 savedfile > outfile.pl

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(Of course, the other fix is to not use utf8; after you download the script; perl will default to your native Windows encoding {if I understand things correctly}, so that should work -- at least, it did for me from that same downloaded source code.)

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Re^4: Malformed UTF-8 character
by BillKSmith (Monsignor) on Dec 02, 2022 at 16:25 UTC
    Thanks for the reminder to check Strawberry (and perl) utilities occasionally.

    Note: The character in question (\x96) is one of the differences between ISO-8859-1 and CP1252. See the difference in the character starting at location 12. The savedfile is from the original post Regex: matching any Number then a hyphen. 

    C:\Users\Bill\forums\monks>xxd savedfile
00000000: 3132 3334 202d 2046 6f6f 0d0a 3536 3737  1234 - Foo..5677
00000010: 3820 9620 4261 720d 0a39 3939 392e 2042  8 . Bar..9999. B
00000020: 617a 0d0a                                az..

C:\Users\Bill\forums\monks>iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf-8 savedfile > ou
+tfile.txt

C:\Users\Bill\forums\monks>xxd outfile.txt
00000000: 3132 3334 202d 2046 6f6f 0d0a 3536 3737  1234 - Foo..5677
00000010: 3820 c296 2042 6172 0d0a 3939 3939 2e20  8 .. Bar..9999.
00000020: 4261 7a0d 0a                             Baz..

C:\Users\Bill\forums\monks>iconv -f CP1252 -t utf-8 savedfile > outfil
+e.txt

C:\Users\Bill\forums\monks>xxd outfile.txt
00000000: 3132 3334 202d 2046 6f6f 0d0a 3536 3737  1234 - Foo..5677
00000010: 3820 e280 9320 4261 720d 0a39 3939 392e  8 ... Bar..9999.
00000020: 2042 617a 0d0a                            Baz..

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    Life was so much easier fifty years ago. Oh, there really were two keypunch codes.

    Bill
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      > Life was so much easier fifty years ago

      If your native tongue didn't look like "šířící žďáření"...

      map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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