I don't have the backup files and I'm willing to do it the hard way.  I'm willing to do anything short of actually gonig in and changing every occurrence individually as there are hundreds of them. -ts1971 ________________________________ From: Peter Dyballa To: Tech Stuff Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 4:41 PM Subject: Re: File Encoding Issue on Windows Am 14.03.2013 um 00:26 schrieb Tech Stuff: > Is there really no way to use global search and replace to replace these codepoints? This is the hard way. When your original files have been corrupted, then try the backup files GNU Emacs generates. -- Greetings   Pete The future will be much better tomorrow.                 – George W. Bush