<92> unknown character when opened with Vi editor in Linux - Linux

LinuxTest · #1 10-02-2008

Hi,

One of our applications has this string :
xxx ¿ yyyyy
We are on Linux Suse and the character set is en_US.UTF-8. Our requirement is to replace this special character ¿ with a space. When we open the file containing this string using VI editor we see the same character as <92>

xxx <92> yyyyy
When we try to replace <92> with space using sed command, its not able to recognize this character <92> and so its not able to replace it.

Please advice on how to replace this unknown character/code

Thanks,

era · #2 10-02-2008

Code:

perl -i~ -pe 's/\x92/ /' filename

There are many other ways but many of them are not entirely portable. If you have Perl, this should work without modification. The original file will be saved as filename~

LinuxTest · #3 10-02-2008

Thanks Era for the reply. The command did not replace the <92> character. Any reason?

LinuxTest · #4 10-02-2008

Hi Era, Sorry the command worked. I was looking in to the Original File instead. Thanks so much.

LinuxTest · #5 10-06-2008

We are on Linux Suse. One of our application has this string XXX ¿ YYY in the data file. I think it was entered through some spanish keyboard. But we want to replace this character with a space before we send the file to other applications.

I opened the file using Vi Editor .I thought first of all i need to copy this character and use the command
sed 's/¿/ /g' to replace the character with a space. But i couldn't even copy this character.

Please advice.

Thanks,

vidyadhar85 · #6 10-06-2008

you can't copy that character?? then how did you pasted it in forum??

parmar.kunal · #7 10-06-2008

Hi,

Will suggest you to search well first before putting a question. This is already answered earlier

take a look here
Changing Special Characters Using Sed

Hope this helps you..

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