special character conversion

    print 'BEFORE:',$dbvalue,"\n";
    my $stage1 = encode_entities( $dbvalue );
    print 'DURING1:',$stage1,"\n";
    $stage1 =~ s/\™/\™/g;
    print 'DURING2:',$stage1,"\n";
#    my $value = decode('iso-8859-1',$dbvalue);
#    my $value = encode( 'utf8', decode('iso-8859-1',$dbvalue) );
    my $value = decode_entities( $stage1 );
    print 'AFTER:',$value,"\n";