How to replace \xxx

How to replace \xxx

[harry meyers]

Hi,

I have a bunch of old Windows .doc files where the german umlauts are
shown like this (on my Debian) for example:
\201 \267. I am not sure but these are Windows chars, no? M - % does
not work. If I enter replace \201 with ü - nothing happens. What can I
do within emacs to avoid replacing them all manually?

harry

Re: How to replace \xxx

[harry meyers]

harry meyers schrieb:

> Hi,
>
> I have a bunch of old Windows .doc files where the german umlauts are
> shown like this (on my Debian) for example:
> \201 \267. I am not sure but these are Windows chars, no? M - % does
> not work. If I enter replace \201 with ü - nothing happens. What can I
> do within emacs to avoid replacing them all manually?
>
> harry

Sorry I forgot, it's only the filenames. I tried M - % in wdired-mode.

harry

Re: How to replace \xxx

[Peter Dyballa]

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 ...
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Re: How to replace \xxx

[harry meyers]

Peter Dyballa schrieb:

> 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>

That's fine. Thank you

harry