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