Dealing with 'special characters'

[Howard Fuchs]

Hi all:

Here is my problem. I have a script which processes input from a 
textarea which may have 'special characters' in it like ‘ or ’ etc.
Unfortunately what I am getting back are these ‘ or ’ respectively.

Script snippet start------------------

use CGI qw/:standard/;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
$c = new CGI;
$ta = $c->param('ta');
 open  (TIDYFILE,">c:/tmp/tidied.html");
 print TIDYFILE $ta;
 close (TIDYFILE);
Script snippet end------------------

Any help appreciated.

Howard

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