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

LinuxTest · #1 (**permalink**) 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 (**permalink**) 10-02-2008

Code:

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

LinuxTest · #3 (**permalink**) 10-02-2008

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

LinuxTest · #4 (**permalink**) 10-02-2008

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

LinuxTest · #5 (**permalink**) 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 (**permalink**) 10-06-2008

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

parmar.kunal · #7 (**permalink**) 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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