[tlug] Japanese encoding problem

["Jean-Christian Imbeault" <jean_christian@example.com>]

Not quite a Linux question but since I'm using vim  ...

I'm having trouble with a file that contains a large dump of a japanese 
database. The problem is that in the database they used a japanese character 
as a separator. I'm trying to do a global replace of that separator but vim 
can't find it or even display it ...

The separator looks like a dot at the same height as a hyphen, something 
like this ?

In vi and vim it displays as a ^K

I've trying to a search and replace on ^K but vim says in can't find it.

my questions are:

1- how do I generate a ^K (I've been doing a copy and paste form my windows 
client of the character into vim to get a ^K). If I try and directly input 
(with the default encoding) ? using the windows IME I get ~AE instead. If I 
try with encoding set to SJIS to input ? I get the dot to show up as a dot 
but vim can't find it in the text.

2- with encoding set to sjis the file shows up fine *except* for the dot 
that shows up as ^K. Why is this?

3- Most importantly how can I do a global replace on this annoying ^K

Thanks!

Jc






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