Searching for Microsoft special characters

My apologies if I get this wrong: I know almost nothing about Eclipse and I'm new to this forum. At least I did try Web searches to answer my questions, but I haven't gotten anywhere.

Microsoft Word, and some other Microsoft products, translate input into Microsoft-only characters: curly quotation marks, ellipses (...), en-dash, em-dash, and a few others. These characters are, in octal, between 0200 and 0237 inclusive == 0x80 to 0x9f. These characters are not portable to Linux. Due to copy-and-paste, a few of these characters have gotten into Java source files.

I would like to tell some developers how to locate and change them in Eclipse. Unfortunately, I haven't been successful. An on-line Eclipse page (the forum software won't allow me to include the URL) indicates that a regular expression search should work. I got a developer to search a directory for the regular expression [\0200-\0237], and then just \0226, but got no hits, even though I know that one file has character octal 226 in it. And this is under Search, to search a set of files. In the version of Eclipse there (a year old or so), I saw no way to search using Find, in the current file, for a regular expression.

Any ideas for how I might proceed? (Including responses of "it should have worked, so you did something wrong -- make sure 'regular expression' is selected".)

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Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com

After tracking down a little more info, it seems that part of the problem is that Eclipse 3.3.2 does not have a regular expression checkbox on the Find window, where Eclipse 3.4.0 does. I blush if that's all it is. As for Search not working in 3.3.2: it does seem to work in 3.4.

Thank you for googling first. I'm glad you found the regex checkbox, but I'm surprised you couldn't find it in 3.3. It's been around forever. At the same time, Eclipse takes some getting used to. In addition, regex support in all products is inconsistent. Sometimes, you have to try variations of the same approach to find one that works with a particular editor. However, I have found the Eclipse editor to be be about the most robust when it comes to regex. It follows the "Java" flavor, if that helps...