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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to replace \xxx
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:21:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D84127B9-0D3C-4C4A-B786-461275593646@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1164311389.206540.68600@j72g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>


Am 23.11.2006 um 20:49 schrieb harry meyers:

> I have a bunch of old Windows .doc files where the german umlauts are
> shown like this (on my Debian) for example:
> \201 \267

Try C-q 2 0 1 <SPC or RET>
or  C-q 2 6 7 <SPC or RET>

You seem to see four characters, but it is only a helpful  
presentation of a character that can't be displayed because it's  
outside the encoding you are using.

--
Mit reisefreudigen Grüßen

   Pete

Wer nicht weiß, wo er oder sie hin will, muss sich nicht wundern,  
wenn er oder sie nicht ankommt ...
                                                      (Mark Twain)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-24 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-23 19:49 How to replace \xxx harry meyers
2006-11-23 20:03 ` harry meyers
2006-11-24 18:21 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.1057.1164418972.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-25 17:13   ` harry meyers

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