Finding non-code page characters

[melvers]

I have a couple of files that I get the standard character not on the cod page 1252 ... will be converted to the system characters.

I am fine with that. However, I would like to find the characters that were replaced and put some other character(s) there that can be displayed.

Does anyone know how to find the characters that got replaced?

[RLRANDALLX]

I have the very same problem. I would like to chnage '?' to a less common char. such as '@' or '~' or '_' or '|'. '?' is way too common!
-rlrandallx

[RLRANDALLX]

Here's a small Perl program to read a file and determine where the "bad" characters are when TextPad says it converted them to '?'
It gives the line #, offset, code value of the char., and tries to print the char. plus one other char. have fun! - rlrandallx

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open(FILE, "<:encoding(UTF-8)", "file.txt") or die $!;
binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");
my @lines=<FILE>;
my $i=0;
my $j=0;
for ($i=0; $i<=$#lines; $i++)
  {
  my $l=length($lines[$i]);
  for ($j=0;$j<$l;$j++)
     {
      my $c=substr($lines[$i],$j,1);
      my $v=ord($c);
      if ( $v > 127 )     # must be in the extended ASCII set or Unicode
         {
         my $ec=substr($lines[$i],$j,2);
         print "l:$i c:$j v:$v $ec\n";
         }
     }
  }