Am 22.09.2006 um 03:06 schrieb Kenichi Handa:

> In article <4CEE7BA9-0CEF-40CD-A081-2C707A44833B@web.de>, Peter  
> Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> writes:
>
>> OK, you're right: it really works better now, I had made some
>> mistake! I wonder whether I picked up the characters with C-s C-w ...
>> As you wrote, this won't work.
>
> It didn't work, but should work now.  I attached 3 files
> (temp1,2,7 encoded in iso-8859-1,2,7 respectively).
>   C-x C-f temp1 RET ESC < C-n C-s C-w C-x C-f temp2 C-s C-s
> should find " á", and
>   C-x C-f temp1 RET ESC < C-n C-n C-s C-w C-x C-f temp7 C-s C-s
> should find " °".

Yes, I can confirm: it works! It works also in my own test files –  
except one: the ISO 8859-6 encoded one. I was searching for HYPHEN- 
MINUS, U+00AD. I'll attach my test file. It could be also useful in  
the ISO 8859-6 possible bug I reported recently.


>
>> Anyway, what also does not work is: C-s C-q <a non-ASCII, i.e.
>> greater 177 octal code>. For those with really small keyboards this
>> is the (almost?) only chance to find some of the x times 64 K
>> characters in Unicode ...
>
> This should work now too.  For instance, " " and "á" are
> 0255 and 0341 in iso-8859-1 charset.  So, if your primary
> charset is iso-8859-1, C-q 255 C-q 341 RET should input
> " á".  And,
>   C-x C-f temp2 ESC < C-s C-q 255 C-q 341 RET
> should find " á" even if the characters in that buffer is
> from iso-8859-2.
>

I did not try this test because it is too simple: LATIN SMALL LETTER  
A WITH ACUTE (U+00E1) is in the two encodings on 341/225/E1.

Please use my answer to Miles Bader as test case! I can send you my  
other ISO 8859-X test files.


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