Re: replacing foreign characters

[Robert Hemenway robhem@xxxxxxxx]

Ted Stannard--

This is one way to go about it:

Move a highlighted character to the command line with Ctrl+Shift+Alt+C. Use
CI rather than CHA and you'll change all such characters in the file.

See the XyWin online Help--Keyboard Help--Keyboard Shortcuts for a list of
special key combinations.

Though writing a search-and-replace routine is simpler in the long run.

RH

At 10:23 PM 9/18/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Cutting & pasting from the web I sometimes get foreign character forms
>instead of hyphens, quotation marks, etc. I figure I should be able to do
>a cleanup search&replace by simple cha command, if I can figure out how to
>copy the offending character into the command line. Just highlighting,
>moving into the command line, and hitting Control-C doesn't work. It just
>duplicates the original.Couldn't find anything in my XYWRite for Windows
>Reference Guide.
>
>So IS there a simple way to capture the offending foreign character by
>highlighting, and pasting it into the right place in a CHA sequence?
>     
>            Ted Stannard in Phnom Penh
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