Notepad++ How to find in page with UTF-8 instead of ANSI ?

[Robin Cruise]

hello, I have a lot of words like ştiinţific and stiintific (with and without diacritics/accent marks). How can I search so as to find both versions?

I can do this in all PDF and MS World files, but in notepad++ I cannot. So, is there a way to do this kind of find and also the replace just with UTF-8 ?

[guy038]

Hello, @robin-cruise and All,

You can achieve this kind of goal with equivalent class structures. Their global syntax is [[=<Single_Letter>=]]

For instance, the regex [[=A=]] would match any of these 82 Unicode chars : AaªÀÁÂÃÄÅàáâãäåĀāĂ㥹ǍǎǞǟǠǡǺǻȀȁȂȃȦȧȺɐɑɒᴀᴬᵃᵄᶏᶐᶛḀḁẚẠạẢảẤấẦầẨẩẪẫẬậẮắẰằẲẳẴẵẶặₐÅ⒜ⒶⓐⱥⱭⱯⱰ, which have a relation, in some way, with the first letter of the Latin alphabet !

Actually, the regex should be more considered as the [=<Single_Letter>=] syntax, embedded in a usual character class [•••••]. For instance, the regex
(?-i)[012[=A=]@b-y[=z=]|] matches all the following characters, sorted by ascending Unicode code-point :

• ASCII chars :

  • 012
  • @
  • A
  • Z
  • a
  • bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy
  • z
  • |

• ANSI chars

  • ª
  • ÀÁÂÃÄÅ
  • àáâãäå

• UNICODE chars, with code over \x{00ff}

  • ĀāĂ㥹
  • ŹźŻżŽž
  • Ǎǎ
  • Ǻǻ
  • ẠạẢảẤấẦầẨẩẪẫẬậẮắẰằẲẳẴẵẶặ

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So, practically, to match, either, your strings ştiinţific and stiintific, use the regex :

[[=s=]]tiin[[=t=]]ific

Best Regards,

guy038

[Robin Cruise]

yes, nice answer. But very hard , because I need to change almost all words from every sentence:)