Re: user sees \xxx but is thwarted from searching for them

[Heinrich Rommerskirchen <Heinrich.Rommerskirchen@icn.siemen.de>]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

> Try "C-u C-x =", it should tell.

But you have to do it for each candidate character. Or is there some easy
way to search for the next latin-9 character in a predominantly latin-1
buffer?

I was in such a situation yesterday. Normally I use latin-1 encoding but
switched to language environment latin-9 to edit some files containing Euro
signs and forgot about this change. Then I loaded a 400 line DOS file
containing "-*- coding: cp850 -*-" in the first line. Emacs encoded all the
umlauts already in the file as latin-1 but encoded the typed umlauts as
latin-9. And after minor changes all over the file and a few interruptions
I didn't remember which parts were changed and which were old ...

-- 
Regards

Heinz