Re: [vile] How to convert \?nn strings to characters?

[Chris G]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 04:47:14PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Chris G wrote:
> 
> >I have a number of files created a long time ago which have 'extended
> >ASCII' characters in them which are encoded in a way that vile doesn't
> >understand (at least the way I have it set up it doesn't).
> >
> >They appear as follows in vile and xvile:-
> >
> >   \?B1       \?B9      \?A1
> >
> >the four character sequence above is what vile/xvile shows for a single byte
> >of my files.  Is there any way I can get vile/xvile to recognise and display
> >these characters and/or a way to get the files saved in a more currently 
> >recognised
> >encoding.  All my current systems use a UTF-8 locale.
> 
> If your system has the corresponding 8-bit locale installed, then
> 
> :setl fk=8bit
> 
> for the given buffer should should the characters as you intended.
> 
> For _saving_ in a different encoding... vile doesn't really do
> that (recode can do it).
> 
Thanks, recode is exactly what I needed!  :-)

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Chris Green