Hello!

Sorry if this has been asked before, I looked though the Q&A and the web a little. The problem is I don't really know what I am really looking for (not sure what these types of characters are called).

I have some files with some funkyness like this:

Is there a way to match these types of characters? I tried a few things. I thought they might be control characters but \cK or \000-\037 approach didn't work.

Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks!

UPDATE: The solution I came up with was to convert the string to Hex and then check if those values fell outside a certain range (commonly used characters have lower value). So, checking if the Hex value was > 150 helped me to identify any problem areas and replace those characters.

In reply to Matching  & € type characters with a regex by Rodster001

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