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Well, I finally found the solution. It's described in an article by brian d foy -- https://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/2010/10/specify-any-character-by-its-octal-ordinal-value/. I was indeed incorrectly specifying both the hex code and the octal code. After finding Brian's article my program is now corrected to be the following:
use strict;
use ...
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From Tom Yan’s comment, it appears that -CSD is actually messing it up somehow. Leave it out, and usually¹ I get what I want (at least with my locale):
WGroleau@MBP ~ % echo "Let’s try again for an em-dash" > /tmp/tmp
WGroleau@MBP ~ % cat /tmp/tmp
Let’s try again for an em-dash
WGroleau@MBP ~ % perl -p -i -e 's:em-dash:—:g;' !$
perl -p -i -e 's:...
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The command line is not the same thing as standard input and doesn't go through PerlIO – it is a flat string array (@ARGV in Perl) which is handled by -CA rather than -CS. You need -CSDA to cover everything.
(Alternatively, call utf8::decode($_) for @ARGV near the beginning of your script.)
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