<![CDATA[Search and replace special characters ANSI-UTF]]>hello, how can I search and replace special ANSI-UTF characters like: xE2, xEE, xCE, x80, x9D, x9E etc

I try to search and replace in normal mode and with regex, but nothing happen:

xE2 = (â)
xEE = (î),
xCE = (Î)

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/12897/search-and-replace-special-characters-ansi-utfRSS for NodeTue, 12 May 2026 03:05:32 GMTSun, 11 Dec 2016 17:22:57 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Search and replace special characters ANSI-UTF on Sat, 09 Apr 2022 06:55:53 GMT]]>I use this regex to find ANSI characters in all my documents:

FIND: ¾|Ð|¼|°|Ñ|Ä|¢|º|ª|Å|Ÿ|ž|È|æ|Ã|¢|£|®|º|©|€|§|®|™|¢

in almost all ANSI characters these signs are repeated: ¾|Ð|¼|°|Ñ

But I use that longer regex, to make sure I don’t miss anything.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/75883https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/75883Sat, 09 Apr 2022 06:55:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Search and replace special characters ANSI-UTF on Sun, 11 Dec 2016 21:04:51 GMT]]>Hi Vasile and All,

Since my previous post, I noticed some odd things :

  • Firstly, for most of the cases, in extended search mode, the search, in an ANSI encoded file, of the syntax \xmn, between \x80 and \x9f ( which represents the range of Unicode C1 Control characters ), get the classical Interrogation Mark ( \x3F ), instead of saying 0 matches, which should be the correct answer !

Refer to :

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf

  • Secondly, when using the Regular expression search mode, the behaviour of the search, in an ANSI encoded file, seems different, than with an other NON-Unicode encoding, got from the menu option Encoding > Character Sets !?

Therefore, I updated my previous post, to reflect these restrictions !

Cheers,

guy038

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/19874https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/19874Sun, 11 Dec 2016 21:04:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Search and replace special characters ANSI-UTF on Sun, 11 Dec 2016 19:08:21 GMT]]>thanks guy038, you are always perfect !

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/19869https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/19869Sun, 11 Dec 2016 19:08:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Search and replace special characters ANSI-UTF on Sun, 11 Dec 2016 20:33:07 GMT]]>Hello, Vasile,

Post, updated on 12-11-2016, at 21h30 ( French TZ ) !

The accentuated characters, whose Unicode code-points is between \x00c0 and \x00ff can be easily searched with the following syntaxes :

  • A) If your current file has an Unicode encoding ( UTF-8, UTF-8 BOM, UCS-2, BE BOM or UCS-2 LE BOM) :

    • \xmn , where m and n belong to [0-9A-Fa-f], if search mode = Extended OR Regular expression

    • \x{mn} , where m and n belong to [0-9A-Fa-f], if search mode = Regular expression

    • \x{00mn} , where m and n belong to [0-9A-Fa-f], if search mode = Regular expression

  • B) If your current file has the ANSI encoding :

    • \xmn , where m belongs to [0-7A-Fa-f] and n belongs to [0-9A-Fa-f], if search mode = Extended

    • \xmn , where m and n belong to [0-9A-Fa-f], if search mode = Regular expression

    • \x{mn} , where m belongs to [0-7] and n belongs to [0-9A-Fa-f], if search mode = Regular expression

    • \x{00mn} , where m belongs to [0-7] and n belongs to [0-9A-Fa-f], if search mode = Regular expression

  • C) If your current file has a NON Unicode encoding, from Encoding > Character Sets ) :

    • \xmn , where m and n belong to [0-9A-Fa-f], if search mode = Extended OR Regular expression

    • \x{mn} , where m and n belong to [0-9A-Fa-f], if search mode = Regular expression

    • \x{00mn} , where m and n belong to [0-9A-Fa-f], if search mode = Regular expression

Of course, from your example :

xE2 = (â)
xEE = (î)
xCE = (Î)

As you have, both, the upper-case letter Î and the lower-case î, you’ll need to check the Match case option or to put the (?-i) modifier, in front of \x.., in order to get the right letter, only !

Best Regards,

guy038

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