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Text files on linux have "<97>" characters
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Mar 15, 20261284 viewsConfidence Score0%
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When viewing a particular text file in vim or less on Linux or OS X, all the en dashes show up as highlighted "<97>" characters. What control-sequence do I need to type in order to substitute the hyphens back? For example, the following doesn't work in vim: Typing bracket nine seven bracket is not …
Error Output
% s/<97>/--/g
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After some troubleshooting I seem to have figured it out. The control sequence is Substituting that for the <97> in the vim code above works.
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