How to search and replace an unprintable character

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Published on 2010-05-09T16:54:32Z Indexed on 2010/05/09 16:58 UTC
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I've a file that was exported from Word and it replaced all quotes with strange unicode characters which aren't correctly displayed in vim. So now I want those characters to be replaced with quotes, but I don't know how to enter this character in

:%s/???/'/g

The characters look like this: ~U ~R. But of course I can't just mark them with mouse and paste in the command.

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