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Subject: Re: user sees \xxx but is thwarted from searching for them
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jidanni@deadspam.com (Dan Jacobson) writes:

> OK, my file would be a well behaved big5 chinese file except for a few
> scattered characters that the author was using to represent some IPA
> symbols.  My mission: no hunt them down and deal with them so that the
> file can the be used with emacs.

Right.  So, I think that C-x RET c big5 RET C-x C-f /tmp/somefile RET
would visit the file in the manner you want.  And then, if you were
using Emacs 20, you could try to save the file in the same coding
system and then Emacs would highlight the characters that aren't
encodable.

But with Emacs 21, some Lisp is require that searches for characters
not encodable in coding system X.

kai
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