UDL Operators - unicode support?

[moon6969]

I’m making a UDL for some UTF-8 files and was hoping to use some unicode [Sm] Symbol, Math for Operators1.

From Ivan’s UDL operators documentation …

Operators1
This is a “forward” search group.
These operators can be “glued” to other keywords. You can use it to define operators like:
! && << >> + - _ %
In short: these should be special non-alphanumeric characters

On Notepad++ v7.8.6 (32-bit) I can only get them working with basic ASCII (codepoint < 7F) non-alphanumerics - is there a way around this?

NB: Same issue appears with Delimiter Open/Close.

Cheers.

[PeterJones]

@moon6969 said in UDL Operators - unicode support?:

I can only get them working with basic ASCII

I hadn’t tried before today, but I concur

is there a way around this?

Natively:

• for delimiters? no
• for operators? if you’re willing to use one of the keywords lists for “fancy operators”, you could give it the same (or similar) styling, so those keywords look like the operators

Using a scripting plugin (like PythonScript)

• you can add extra highlighting to a UDL language using regexes via the script EnhanceUDLLexer.py that @Ekopalypse shares in this linked post

[moon6969]

@PeterJones Thanks.
I was hoping to use operators since they “glue” - my initial testing indicates that keywords need spaces to be recognised which is difficult to ensure in my case.

I’ll check out the suggested script - might be a quick win if it’s fast enough on some of the decrepit hardware I need to support!