Re: Finding and mapping all UTF-8 characters

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 05.12.2009 um 17:03 schrieb deech:

> Is there a way to (1) search for the UTF-8 encoded characters in a
> document

Yes. In GNU Emacs 23 I've seen in the *Warnings* buffer hyper-links to  
the characters not fitting into the specified encoding.

You could also search for the usual prefixes of UTF-{7,8,16} encoded  
characters.

> and (2) map them to a sensible ASCII character?


How can you map 100,000 or 200,000 characters to a very limited set of  
100? This mapping would be candidate for the most successful  
compression algorithm...


Besides, it's not sane to save a file in an encoding a when the file's  
header tells its contents is in encoding b.

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