in dumping plain text files from .doc files using open
office, i find that certain punctuation marks show up
as hard to find sequences when i attempt to edit the
file using vi (actually vim).

e.g. the apostrophe seems to show as the octal sequence
342 200 231 (decimal 226 128 153).  presumably i should be
able to find this by looking for ^V226 but that doesn't
work.  working backwards, i tried inserting the sequence
and found that ^V226 inserted octal 303 242, ^V128
inserted octal 302 200, and ^V153 inserted 302 231.  this
is not intuitively obvious.

i plumbed the o'reilly book "learning the vi editor" but
found no explanation.  does anyone have any suggestions
(other than switching to emacs)?

dan

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