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 : AaªÀÁÂÃÄÅàáâãäåĀāĂăĄąǍǎǞǟǠǡǺǻȀȁȂȃȦȧȺɐɑɒᴀᴬᵃᵄᶏᶐᶛḀḁẚẠạẢảẤấẦầẨẩẪẫẬậẮắẰằẲẳẴẵẶặₐÅ⒜Ⓐⓐ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}
- ĀāĂăĄą
- ŹźŻżŽž
- Ǎǎ
- Ǻǻ
- ẠạẢảẤấẦầẨẩẪẫẬậẮắẰằẲẳẴẵẶặ

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:)