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

[David Buddrige]

thanks. 8-) 

David. 

Brad Hill writes: 

> 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.
>