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Re: replace placeholders
From: |
henry atting |
Subject: |
Re: replace placeholders |
Date: |
Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:49:01 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
On Mo, Mär 02 2009, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 02.03.2009 um 15:06 schrieb henry atting:
>
>> I simply typed \226 to `query-replace's prompt.
>
>
> It should have been: C-q 2 2 6 <something non-digital> – and sometimes
> care needs to be taken: GNU Emacs 23.x (could be also 22.x) can be
> set to accept hex (to input directly Unicode characters) and other
> coding instead of octal. Now you have strings comprised of \, 2, and
> 6.
Yes, this works fine.
Strange. After I eliminated all these placeholders (it is a *.tex file)
I do not really miss anything in the PDF output, the source does not
contain any letter with a circumflex.
Anyway, for now I do not have to convert any other latin1 file.
Thanks
henry