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Re: [h-e-w] Processing chars above \200
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: [h-e-w] Processing chars above \200 |
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Thu, 20 Sep 2018 23:43:35 +0300 |
> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:00:21 -0400
> From: John J. Xenakis <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
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> If I do this:
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> >>> (query-replace-regexp "[\220-\225]" "XXX")
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> it does NOT work at all, and replaces nothing. ???????
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> What I want to do is find and optionally replace a range of characters
> from \200 to \277. How do I do that?
Why do you insist in using octal escapes instead of using the
corresponding Latin characters literally? What characters do you
need to replace and why? I suspect those are raw bytes and not real
characters, but I don't want to guess.
IOW, please give us some more context of your real-life problem. Then
we might be able to help you more efficiently.