thanks for the code. well i know it would be a short s///, but was just looking up for if anyone has hook this on the network, so that i won't have to type. simply lazy.

but really, it might stab me again if i'll have to remember escaping everytime there's a regexp, or everytime there's a possibility to have big5 input. that's why i tried to ask if this can be solved by locale, or something else, that i don't have to write..