title: Notepad++ - Finding and replacing a special character
body: <p>I would guess this has be answered before, but I am struggling to find anything. A lot of the posts I find are to do with finding FLEC1 (Arabic character) and the suggestions there are to use \u however this doesn't work for me.</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to find and replace all instances of a special character that shows as xB7 in my .xml file.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/jhB63.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/jhB63.jpg" alt="Example xB7"></a></p>
  
  <p>I don't actually know what the correct terminology here is for what I'm trying to find, so when I search "special characters" it always ends back with FLEC1...</p>
  
  <p>I believe this is the object in question; <a href="http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/b7/index.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/b7/index.htm</a></p>
  
  <p>The notepad++ documentation suggests to search for \x then the 2 byte code, but searching for \xB7 doesn't work, neither does \xxB7</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/Regular_Expressions#Non_ASCII_characters" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/Regular_Expressions#Non_ASCII_characters</a></p>
  
  <p>Copying and pasting also doesn't work.</p>
  
  <p>Another suggestion was; [^\x00-\x7F]+</p>
  
  <p>However this doesn't operate correctly, it skips singular xB7 codes and out of a string of 9 xB7s in a row it finds the first 4 and the following 4...</p>