Re: [off topic] List all non-latin characters in a buffer

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

>>>>> On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 16:50:54 +0200, Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> said:

    >>>> "JMM" == Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:
    Uwe> Hi Juan


    >> Sorry for the offtopic, but I thought this homemade function I wrote
    >> some time ago for my work might perhaps be useful to some Orgers. When
    >> executed in a buffer, the `list-non-latin-chars' function opens a window
    >> displaying a list of all the non (basic) Latin characters present in
    >> that document. Each item in the list contains the character, its Unicode
    >> canonical name, and its hexadecimal code. For example:

    Uwe> Very very nice,

    Uwe> Till now I used only a very simple search function

    Uwe> (defun my-search-no-ascii ()
    Uwe> "Simple function to search for no ASCII symbols in a file."
    Uwe>   (interactive)
    Uwe>   (skip-chars-forward "\001-\177"))

Equivalently you can do
 (skip-chars-forward "[[:ascii:]]")

(or use `re-search-forward' with the [:nonascii:] character class.)

Robert
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