Replacing odd characters.
John Culleton
the process characters such as smart quotes, apostrophes etc. get converted
to non-printing characters which in turn are represented by very strange
strings in Gvim. Actually most of these items are two bytes. For example
opening quotes are octal 200 followed by octal 230 and closing quotes are
octal 200 followed by octal 231. The Vim representation is pretty tough to
replicate, starting with the letter a under a circumflex accent and followed
by ~@~T for the octal 200 230 combination.
How would represent each of these in a substitute command that was effectively
:%s/[octal strings]/replacement character(s)/g
It is the octal strings that give me a fit. Must I prefix each digit with \o?
I use Gvim 7.1 on a Slackware Linux version 12 system.
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John Culleton
Tony Mechelynck
What 'encoding' are you using? Neither 0x80 0x98 nor 0x80 0x99 are valid in
UTF-8, in both UTF-16be and UTF-16le they are both CJK hanzi/kanji/hanja.
Well, to replace either sequence by a single quote you could use
:exe "%s/\<Char-128>[\<Char-152>\<Char-153>]/'/g"
see
:help expr-quote
:help <Char>
Best regards,
Tony.
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