Findchangebylist local characters

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November 4, 2020
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Im making my own finchangebylist script, however I am finding that using norwegian characters (æøå) doesnt work with findchangebylist. Is there a fix for this?

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Correct answer brian_p_dts

You can search for the Unicode equivalents:

\\x{00E6}

For instance.

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Thomas,

hm; best stay with your Unicode solution.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Thomas,

also: Can you show a snippet of the list where are you using the "special" characters?

I'd like to test something with my German InDesign.

BTW: What's your version of InDesign on what operating system?

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

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thomasg24808415Author

Inspiring

Here is the part of the list. I actually alreado solved it using unicode, but if you have a solution that doesnt involve unicode I would prefer that. Im likely to do a lot of find change scripting in the near future.

My OS is catalina 10.15.7 (latest) and indesign 16 (latest). Obviously using a mac.

grep {findWhat:"[0-1][0-9]-20 min"} {changeTo:"Rask å lage"} {includeLockedStoriesForFind:false, includeLockedLayersForFind:false, includeHiddenLayers:false, includeMasterPages:false, includeFootnotes:false, kanaSensitive:true, widthSensitive:true, searchBackwards:false} //Comment

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

See the following discussion. In addition to what Brian mentioned, you can use the characters literally in the FindChangeList file as well. You just need to make sure that the encoding of the file is proper.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/make-findchangebylist-work-for-accented-characters/td-p/11404392?page=1

-Manan