[plug] trouble with searching for non-ascii characters in a text file

[Brad Hill]

use hexdump

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Buddrige" <buddrige at wasp.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 1:03 PM
Subject: [plug] trouble with searching for non-ascii characters in a text
file


> Hi all,
>
> I have some html files that contain odd [non-ascii] characters here and
> there.  The web-browser displays them as "?" in the html page.  My text
> editor uses another character to represent that particular character.  I
> want to find out how to determine what exact hexadecimal value that
> character evaluates to, and then how to grep on that hex-value - rather
than
> its ascii equivilent.  is this possible?
>
> thanks
>
> David.