Re: replace placeholders

[henry atting]

On Mo, Mär 02 2009, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Am 02.03.2009 um 15:06 schrieb henry atting:
>
>> I simply typed \226 to `query-replace's prompt.
>
>
> It should have been: C-q 2 2 6 <something non-digital> – and sometimes
> care needs to be taken: GNU Emacs 23.x (could be also 22.x)  can be
> set to accept hex (to input directly Unicode characters) and  other
> coding instead of octal. Now you have strings comprised of \,  2, and
> 6.

Yes, this works fine.
Strange. After I eliminated all these placeholders (it is a *.tex file)
I do not really miss anything in the PDF output, the source does not
contain any letter with a circumflex.
Anyway, for now I do not have to convert any other latin1 file.

Thanks
henry