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ChoiZ
ChoiZ

Reputation: 732

How to replace <e9> by é in vim

I want to search and replace "<e9>" by "é".

:%s/<e9>/é/g

Doesn't works but <e9> seems vim special char

/ ctrl+v xe9

find only the correct "é" but not "<e9>"

If i'm on <e9> and i type :ascii i've got this result:

<é> 233, Hexa 00e9, Octal 351

If i'm on "é" and i type :ascii i've got this result:

<é> 233, Hexa 00e9, Octal 351

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1559

Answers (2)

infiniteRefactor
infiniteRefactor

Reputation: 2120

AFAIK <e9> is a single character somehow corrupted with encoding conversions.

At command mode, when your cursor is on <e9> give command yl. This will yank the character to buffer. Then search for the yanked character by giving command /<C-R>- (This involves going to search mode, pressing CTRL+R and pressing -.) Your search should find all the <e9> chars in text. Finally do a substitution by using the last search result:

%s//é/g

Upvotes: 0

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172688

Your text already contains the proper é character (as shown by the :ascii command), it's just that Vim doesn't display it like that. (You can verify with another text lister / editor.)

How characters are displayed is governed by the 'isprint' option. Its help says:

When 'encoding' is a Unicode one, illegal bytes from 128 to 255 are displayed as <xx>, with the hexadecimal value of the byte.

So, assuming you haven't change the 'isprint' value, you likely have an issue with the detection of the encoding. Check

:set encoding? fileencodings? fileencoding?

and correct.

Upvotes: 4

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