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global search and replacement of a non-ascii character

Hi, I need to do a global search and replacement of a non-ascii character. Let me first give the background of my problem.

Very frequently, I need to copy set of references from different sources. Typically, a reference would like this:

Banumathy et al., 2002 G. Banumathy, V. Singh and U. Tatu, Host chaperones are recruited in membrane-bound complexes by Plasmodium falciparum, The Journal of Biological Chemistry 277 (2002), pp. 3902-3912.

When I copy a set of references on to a 'vi' editor screen, the hyphen (-) character, which is invariably present in the pagination details, is shown as
<96> character. When I use the command, cat -vt <filename>, char <96> is shown as M-BM-^V

My question is, how do I search for the non-ascii character, <96> , using vi editor.

Many thanks,

Francis

NCSI, IISc, Bangalore, India

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TRANSMISSION-EDIT(1)					    BSD General Commands Manual 				      TRANSMISSION-EDIT(1)

NAME

     transmission-edit -- command-line utility to modify .torrent files' announce URLs

SYNOPSIS

     transmission-edit [-h] [-a url] [-d url] [-r search replace] torrentfile(s)

DESCRIPTION

     transmission-edit command-line utility to modify .torrent files' announce URLs

OPTIONS

     -h --help
	     Show a short help page and exit.

     -a --add URL
	     Add an announce URL to the torrent's announce-list if it's not already in the list

     -d --delete URL
	     Remove an announce URL from the torrent's announce-list

     -r --replace search replace
	     Substring search-and-replace inside a torrent's announce URLs. This can be used to change an announce URL when the tracker moves or
	     your passcode changes.

EXAMPLES

     Update a tracker passcode in all your torrents:

	   $ transmission-edit -r old-passcode new-passcode ~/.config/transmission/torrents/*.torrent

AUTHORS

     Jordan Lee

SEE ALSO

     transmission-create(1), transmission-daemon(1), transmission-edit(1), transmission-gtk(1), transmission-qt(1), transmission-remote(1),
     transmission-show(1)

     http://www.transmissionbt.com/

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