fixing coding character

fixing coding character

[giglio robbò d'acciaio]

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.

Many thanks in advantage.
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Re: fixing coding character

[Kai Großjohann]

giglio robbò d'acciaio <dgiglio@iol.it> 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.
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