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When viewing a particular text file in vim or less on Linux or OS X, all the en dashes show up as highlighted "<97>" characters.
What control-sequence do I need to type in order to substitute the hyphens back? For example, the following doesn't work in vim:
% s/<97>/--/g
Typing bracket nine seven bracket is not the same as typing the actual special character.
Joel Eidsath
Posted 2010-04-28T23:11:48.343
Reputation: 113
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The correct fix is to take your file and run it through iconv to convert from CP1252 to UTF-8.
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Posted 2010-04-28T23:11:48.343
Reputation: 100 516
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After some troubleshooting I seem to have figured it out. The control sequence is
ctrl-V X 9 7
Substituting that for the <97> in the vim code above works.
Joel Eidsath
Posted 2010-04-28T23:11:48.343
Reputation: 113
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You can also tell vim to re-interpret the text file using a different codepage. In command mode, enter
:e ++enc=cp1252
That should fix your em-dashes and any other unusual characters in your source text.
Andrew Paul Landells
Posted 2010-04-28T23:11:48.343
Reputation: 11
@marcusw: A question must be at least two days old before the OP can accept their own answer. http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6044/why-must-i-wait-2-days-before-accepting-my-own-answer
– Chris Johnsen – 2010-04-29T01:13:11.187