Sounds like you would want to use a hex editor to see the
absolute value of each char in the file.
I am not sure how '~t' and '~v' show up as a single char.
In the absence of that you may want to try 'od' on the file
which will show the octal value of each char, then you can convert
that value to hex, if it is below 0x20 it will be a control character.
Perhaps there are chars (non-printing) in there being used as
Group Separators or Record Separators or such etc.and all that
junk was somehow imported into the HTML. (od = octal dump)
If you then have an octal lookup chart you can skip the hex conversion,
that was just to make it easier to identify the char you're seeing.
That's MY one rupee's worth anyhow
Bob Foxworth
----- Original Message -----
From: "td376" <td376@mail.anonymizer.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 10:25
Subject: Re: [SLUG] What are the ~T and ~V characters?
> I am seeing the tilda "~" character.
>
> Andrew Wyatt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 09:47, td376 wrote:
> >
> >>I am seeing the following two characters in some html files ~T and ~V
> >>using vi on Red Hat 7.3. They are showing up as single characters. If
> >>I cat the file or use pico they show up as white space. Cannot find any
> >>info via google. What are they? How do you create them?
> >
> >
> > ~ or ^ characters? If they are ^ you can create them in VIM using
> > control-v then control-character.
> >
> > -Andrew
> >
> >
>
>
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