>I am trying to sort out some files that contain a number of entities,
>a large number of correctly-coded accented characters (é for e acute)
>and a good many incorrectly-coded accented characters (È for e acute).
>
>To identify the problematic cases I deleted from the files with grep
>[a-z] and [A-Z] but this also deleted the È and other problems.
>
>But those same characters could be found (before [A-Z] deleted them)
>by searching for [À-Ù]...
>
>My conclusion is that [A-Z] finds more than A through Z, but can this
>be so ?

I tried to duplicate this and could not.  I took 
your above paragraphs and pasted into a new text 
file in BBEdit, and replaces [A-Z] with nothing 
(case insensitive, grep) and it left the five 
accented characters as expected.

Are you using BBEdit 9?
    Peter.

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