From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: fixing coding character Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:45:05 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84heaopiq6.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046443590 12949 80.91.224.249 (28 Feb 2003 14:46:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:46:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18olmM-0003MW-00 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:46:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ollL-0005I7-09 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:45:23 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!p50877d52.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p50877d52.dip.t-dialin.net (80.135.125.82) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1046443507 58618238 80.135.125.82 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:J6AY47wl4PQ3Jp5mpgLByA2adY4= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110718 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7219 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7219 giglio robḅ d'acciaio writes: > Maybe I've messed up with the coding system of the file I'm working > with, since I see many letters (accented ones + ¬) are preceded by > the code \216. Is there any fast way to delete all of them, than > one by one. Off course the search+replace doesn't works. Of course search+replace works. Type C-q 2 1 6 RET to enter that character. Or use copy and paste to paste it into your search/replace prompt. You might be able to open the file in the emacs-mule coding system. To do this, do C-x RET c emacs-mule RET, then immediately do C-x C-f /path/to/file RET. -- A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.