Unicode in Find and Reo

[Alireza Nikzad]

When I want to use the Unicodes in Find/Change, only the number is written, not the character.

How can I solve it?

[Alireza Nikzad]

Unicode in Find/Change

[Test Screen Name]

Don't type <202C>. Paste the correct Unicode character.

[Manan Joshi]

Try writing it as <0202C>

-Manan

[Peter Kahrel]

No -- the OP's original <202C> in the replace-text field is correct.

[Manan Joshi]

Well then what could be the reason for this behaviour that OP sees. I mean sure the literal would work but why does this unicode annotation not work?

-Manan

[Peter Spier]

Should this be done as GREP rahter than Plain Text?

[Peter Kahrel]

The OP seems to be looking for literals, so plain text will do fine.

[Peter Spier]

I just tried it here on Win 10 in version 16.4 (US English) and it seems to work correctly as Alireza Nikzad has it entered in the image so I suspect there is something specific about his install.

[Marc Autret]

Hi @Alireza Nikzad 

A quick script can change the <hhhh> code (once entered in the Change to field) into the corresponding character:

(function(p,t)
{
   (t=p.properties.changeTo)
   && /^<[0-9a-f]{1,6}>$/i.test(t)
   && 0xFFFF >= (t=Number('0x'+t.slice(1,-1)))
   && (p.changeTo=String.fromCharCode(t));
})(app.changeTextPreferences);

Note 1. — Code points beyond the BMP aren't converted, although available in principle. Surrogate pairs don't seem to be rendered in that field—InDesign reverts to the <HHHHH> syntax—so I've removed the support of U+10000..U+10FFFF from my original code.

Note 2. — It would be interesting to make this script responsive, but I'm not sure it's possible.

Best,

Marc

[Laubender]

Hi Alireza,

try this:

TEXT Find what: pattern

<200C>

TEXT Change to: pattern

<202C>

I tried this with this sample text where three instances of a Zero Width Nonjoiner were inserted by using my German InDesign version 17.0.1.105. Scope was the selected story:

The result was this:

Don't know if you expect this…

TEXT Pattern

^j

should find a Zero Width Nonjoiner special character.

Scroll down to section Metacharacters for searching:

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/find-change.html

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Alireza Nikzad]

Hi @Laubender

I want to use this unicode character to fix the previous problem with running headers:

Re: non-joiner character (Unicode <200C>) didn't w... - Adobe Support Community - 12568129

and it worked:

And I can use this Find/Change myself, but when I suggested this solution to my friends, some of them told me they can't use unicodes in Find/Change. Now I want to find a final solution to help them.

[Laubender]

Hi Alireza,

interesting!

Could you share sample documents with that text variable?

One before you did the find/change and one with the result.

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )