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> What am I missing?

use utf8 ?

You should dump your string to see what's inside, best inspected with Devel::Peek

Tested on my mobile

$ perl
use utf8;
$string = "“can’t”";

$string =~ tr/“’”/"'"/;
print $string . "\n";
__END__
"can't"
$
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Without utf8 Perl is considering every string to be a byte string not a character string (the flag will be missing)

Your multibyte unicode character might look ok in your editor but Perl will try to transliterate individual bytes.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)

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