Re: replace with Unicode code point

Eric--

Thanks for your suggestion; unfortunately, while it works for the 
original case I gave, it doesn't work in some other situations.  
Specifically, it doesn't work if I want to insert a specific Unicode 
code point AND some variable from the input line.  In my particular 
case, the input is
    \u012B([\u0300-\u03FF])
(pre-composed small 'i' with macron + any combining diacritic)
and the output is
    "\u0131\u0304$1"
(small dotless 'i' plus combining macron + the original combining 
diacritic)

The first two Unicode code points--\u0131\u0304--come out correctly as 
the two Unicode chars at those code points (which is what I couldn't get 
before your suggestion).  Unfortunately, the '$1' comes out as the 
string '$1', i.e. it is not a copy of the original combining diacritic.

I suspect there's a way to do this with a "BeanShell snippet", but I 
don't know beans about this...

So I think I'm going to submit a bug report on this.  Specifically, the 
report will suggest that the use of Unicode code points in the "Replace 
with" box should function as I would expect, i.e. to introduce the 
character at the specified code point; and they should do so in either 
the \x{0131} syntax or the \u0131 syntax, the same way they do in the 
"Search for" box.

Somebody stop me if there's a good reason I shouldn't do this!

    Mike Maxwell


On 2017-11-05 11:07, Eric Le Lay wrote:
> Choosing to replace with a **beanshell snippet** rather than **text**
> and surrounding the replacement with double quotes ("\u016B") works.

in response to my Fri, 03 Nov 2017 18:09:31 -0400:
>> I'm trying to use regex's that include Unicode code points in both
>> the search and the replace parts.  It works fine for search, but not
>> for replace.
>> 
>> Specifically, I can enter the sequence
>>     \x{016B}\x{0304}
>> in the "Search for" box in the "Search and Replace" dialog box, or
>> equivalently
>>     \u016B\u0304
>> and it finds the characters (ū̄) correctly.  (FWIW, this is a
>> pre-composed u+macron followed by a combining macron, which is of
>> course redundant...which is why I'm trying to replace it.)
>> 
>> If I then enter the string
>>     \x{016B}
>> or equivalently
>>     \u016B
>> in the "Replace with" box in that same "Search and Replace" dialog
>> box, I would expect the search string in the buffer to be replaced by
>>     ū
>> But instead it gets replaced by
>>     u016B
>> I would consider this a bug.  If Unicode code points work in the
>> Search box, they should also work in the Replace box.
>> 
>> Before I submit a bug report, though, I want to find out whether I'm
>> doing s.t. wrong.  I do of course have the "Regular expressions" box
>> checked in the dialog box (else the search wouldn't work).  Does
>> anyone have any suggestions?  Or a reason why this is a feature
>> rather than a bug.



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