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How to search/replace special chars?

Asked 2011-12-09T15:14:39.467
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After a copy-paste from Wikipedia into Vim, I get this:

  1 A
  2 
  3 [+] Métier agricole<200e> – 44 P • 2 C
  4 [×] Métier de l'ameublement<200e> – 10 P
  5 [×] Métier de l'animation<200e> – 5 P
  6 [+] Métier en rapport avec l'art<200e> – 11 P • 4 C
  7 [×] Métier en rapport avec l'automobile<200e> – 10 P
  8 [×] Métier de l'aéronautique<200e> – 15 P

The problem is that <200e> is only a char.

I'd like to know how to put it in a search/replace (via the / or :).

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Check the help for \%u:

                                /\%d /\%x /\%o /\%u /\%U E678

\%d123  Matches the character specified with a decimal number.  Must be
        followed by a non-digit.
\%o40   Matches the character specified with an octal number up to 0377.
        Numbers below 040 must be followed by a non-octal digit or a non-digit.
\%x2a   Matches the character specified with up to two hexadecimal characters.
\%u20AC Matches the character specified with up to four hexadecimal
        characters.
\%U1234abcd     Matches the character specified with up to eight hexadecimal
        characters.

These are sequences you can use. Looks like you have two bytes, so \%u200e should match it. Anyway, it's pretty strange. 20 in UTF-8 / ASCII is the space character, and 0e is ^N. Check your encoding settings.

answered 2011-12-09T15:21:58.237

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