> Seems like lots of files I get off the net use \x80\x98 or the
> like to denote various non-ascii characters. Is there a way to
> use perl (or any other unix tool) to replace
> \x<whatever>\x<whatever> with, say whatever ASCII or ISO-8859-1
> character or characters?
perl -pe 's/\\x(\w\w)/chr(hex("$1"))/eg'
R's,
John
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