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Operating Systems Linux SuSE <92> unknown character when opened with Vi editor in Linux Post 302243859 by LinuxTest on Monday 6th of October 2008 05:25:37 PM
Old 10-06-2008
Replacing ¿ special character on Linux

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,
 

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ISWBLANK(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual						       ISWBLANK(3)

NAME
iswblank - test for whitespace wide character SYNOPSIS
#include <wctype.h> int iswblank(wint_t wc); DESCRIPTION
The iswblank function is the wide-character equivalent of the isblank function. It tests whether wc is a wide character belonging to the wide character class "blank". The wide character class "blank" is a subclass of the wide character class "space". Being a subclass of the wide character class "space", the wide character class "blank" is disjoint from the wide character class "graph" and therefore also disjoint from its subclasses "alnum", "alpha", "upper", "lower", "digit", "xdigit", "punct". The wide character class "blank" always contains at least the space character and the control character ' '. RETURN VALUE
The iswblank function returns non-zero if wc is a wide character belonging to the wide character class "blank". Otherwise it returns zero. CONFORMING TO
This function is a GNU extension. SEE ALSO
isblank(3), iswctype(3) NOTES
The behaviour of iswblank depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale. GNU
1999-07-25 ISWBLANK(3)
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