Dealing with 'special characters'

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

CGI and special characters

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