On Sunday, April 21, 2002, at 07:49 , Jon Howe wrote:
> I should have been more specific or my be I have missed the point again : > ( > the file is UTF-8 encoded which is fine > for what I want. > > However, I need to get at bullet points within the text. these apear as > the > entity â~@¢ in vi. > > So I thought if could the hex value It would able to deal with any > regexification in that form and the go back to text. > > Does the solution you surgest still apply? what you want is something ala the old 'man ascii' but of the form 'man uft-8' so that you can see the pretty table for the 'non-ascii' stuff - such as this bullet points? hence would know how to 'find' the bullet points? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22UTF-8%22+%2B+perl Much Much is findable about how to do the use uft8 ciao drieux --- OH MY GOD WE ARE OUT OF COFFEE Later dude... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]