Re: foreign letter in text

Jim Diamond <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:24:32 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.pdftex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 09:39 (-0300), Jim Diamond wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 19:42 (+0000), Peter Selinger wrote:

>> If you're on a unix-like system, the following command will find all
>> lines with non-ASCII characters in one or more files:

>> LC_ALL=utf8 egrep -n '[^ -~]' file.tex

> That falsely reports lines with tab characters.  This fixes that problem
> (at least in shells which accept $'...' syntax)

> LC_ALL=utf8 egrep -n $'[^ -~]' file.tex

Duh.
        LC_ALL=utf8 egrep -n $'[^ -~\t]' file.tex

> (Although my system complains
> warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (utf8)
> so maybe a bit more UTF magic is desired anyway.  Or maybe my system needs
> work.)

> Jim