Re: Processing chars above \200

> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:00:21 -0400
> From: John J. Xenakis <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> 
> If I do this:
> 
> >>> (query-replace-regexp "[\220-\225]" "XXX")
> 
> it does NOT work at all, and replaces nothing.  ???????
> 
> What I want to do is find and optionally replace a range of characters
> from \200 to \277.  How do I do that?

Why do you insist in using octal escapes instead of using the
corresponding Latin characters literally?  What characters do you
need to replace and why?  I suspect those are raw bytes and not real
characters, but I don't want to guess.

IOW, please give us some more context of your real-life problem.  Then
we might be able to help you more efficiently.