Re: File Encoding Issue on Windows

[Axel E. Retif]

On 03/13/2013 05:48 PM, Tech Stuff wrote:

> I don't have the backup files and I'm willing to do it the hard way.
> I'm willing to do anything short of actually gonig in and changing every
> occurrence individually as there are hundreds of them.

I also change hundreds of occurrences of characters ``a la TeX'' in 
LaTeX files (say, \'{\i} for í, `? for ¿, etc.) with query-replace: 
Meta-Shift-%

You can try

   Meta-Shift-%

At the minibuffer prompt

   Query replace:

type, say,

    ¿

and at the prompt

    Query replace  ¿ with:

type

    ¿

It will start showing each occurrence of ¿; you can type y for «yes, 
replace» n for «no». If after some occurrences you are satisfied with 
the results, you can type ! «to replace all remaining matches with no 
more questions».

When you are in the Query-replace mode, you can type Control-? to see 
all the options.


Best

Axel