How to escape/replace curly quote in DataWeave?

I have an Mule integration, which gets the payload from one salesforce org and send that to another salesforce org using MuleSoft. We are seeing the issue with when the incoming payload has special (e.g., Accents, curly quote, etc.). We are able to strip out Accents by using StringUtils, but not sure how to handle the curly single and double quote. I had tried using the replace function to update the field data. It seems to be working when I tested out in my local, but while deploying, it is not working. Can someone help me point to the right direction, please? Thank you!