Re: how to scan file for non-ascii chars (eg cut-n-paste from ms-word)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> From: Kenneth Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com>
> Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 11:24:01 -0500
> 
> query-replace works once one has found the non-ASCII character.  However,
> it's often not obvious where the offending text is.

When Emacs asks you to select a suitable encoding, it highlights these
characters, so you can see where they are in the buffer.

> Is there a way to search for anything that isn't ASCII?

If the above is not enough, then try

   M-: (skip-chars-forward "\000-\377") RET