What he said :).

In EBCDIC land you'd get something completely different:

$ perl -MData::Peek -wE'say $^O;DPeek ("\x{201c}"); DPeek ("\x{201d}")
+'
os390
PV("\312\101\160"\0) [UTF8 "\x{201c}"]
PV("\312\101\161"\0) [UTF8 "\x{201d}"]
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