<![CDATA[Syntax highlighting certain Unicode characters]]>Hi. I’m proofreading some OCR’ed text in NPP and it contains some Cyrillic (among other things). Since several Cyrillic letters are of exactly the same shape as certain Latin letters, but of course they go by different code, I would like to syntax highlight them to be sure what am I seeing. Is that possible, please?

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/18335/syntax-highlighting-certain-unicode-charactersRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 02:14:57 GMTSat, 05 Oct 2019 22:28:50 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Syntax highlighting certain Unicode characters on Mon, 07 Oct 2019 19:35:34 GMT]]>@Láng-Attila-D

strictily speaking, UDL does not remain too but get automatically reapplied.
One further thing you can do is to record a macro, save the action and assign
a shortcut then you have to just press that shortcut and the regex marks get reapplied as well.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/47667https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/47667Mon, 07 Oct 2019 19:35:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Syntax highlighting certain Unicode characters on Mon, 07 Oct 2019 17:43:00 GMT]]>Oh, I see. I wasn’t aware about that function. Well, it’s nice, too. The only problem is that it doesn’t remain so after reopening the document. Well, better than nothing. Thank you.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/47665https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/47665Mon, 07 Oct 2019 17:43:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Syntax highlighting certain Unicode characters on Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:44:01 GMT]]>@Láng-Attila-D

I hope we haven’t misunderstood each other but

mark the regex matches instead of replacing it (4th tab of find/reaplce dialog)

doesn’t involve any programming and doesn’t manipulate your text either.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/47648https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/47648Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:44:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Syntax highlighting certain Unicode characters on Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:41:14 GMT]]>Sorry to hear that, @Ekopalypse, but actually, I know nothing of either Python or Lua, nor about the programming of NPP. So, this won’t be solved. Thank you for letting me know.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/47647https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/47647Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:41:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Syntax highlighting certain Unicode characters on Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:53:54 GMT]]>Cannot be solved via UDL, afaik.
Two possible solutions might be to mark the regex matches instead of replacing it (4th tab of find/reaplce dialog)
or to use a scripting plugin like pythonscript, lua script … to write your own quasi-lexer.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/47634https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/47634Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:53:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Syntax highlighting certain Unicode characters on Sun, 06 Oct 2019 01:03:22 GMT]]>NB. For the time being, I quasi-solved it by creating a delimiter style to highlight between characters { and } and performed a regex replacement of [complete cyrillic alphabet here]+ to {$0} thus enclosing any Cyrillic character or word between { } braces. But this isn’t very nice of course.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/47593https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/47593Sun, 06 Oct 2019 01:03:22 GMT