Search for Unicode Characters using Regex

I've been looking at the posts in this forum, but couldn't find anything.

My extended attributes are in UTF-8, the default used by . I want to search for Unicode characters and replace them with their corresponding Unicode number

For example
If my string looks like "Well-Done", where assume the hyphen is an "en-dash" (&endash Smiley Wink

. I want to search for this character and replace it with it's number 8211 (&#8211 Smiley Wink

.

This is just one of the character. I wanted to come up with a regex that can generally search for unicode characters and replace them with their corresponding numbers.

Will appreciate any help or direction.

Thanks
Amit

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Valentine

No need to re-invent the wheel, have a look at the HTML::Entities