JOINER metacharacter - Does it exist?

[Claudio.Nasso]

Good afternoon to all,

provided that in Adobe InDesign CC (2017) [I have the ME edition] there is a NON-JOINER metacharacter (i.e. ^j for text and ~j in GREP), could anyone tell me which is (if it exists) the JOINER metacharacter for text and/or GREP search and replace?

Working on a Japanese text, until now I have inserted a JOINER between two ideograms and then I have created GREP search and replace patterns copying the JOINER in the replace field as follows:

Thank you for your help.

Claudio

[oleh_melnyk · Accepted solution]

according to this table https://www.indiscripts.com/blog/public/data/idcs4-special-characters/en_InDesignCS4-CS5-SpecialChar...

try:

text search: <200D>

grep: \x{200D} or \u200D

[Claudio.Nasso]

Thank you Oleh,

it works as I was expecting, both in text and GREP search/replace.

As I have not an East Asian (Japanese) edition, and according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_breaking_rules_in_East_Asian_languages, I have finally created two GREP search/replace patterns: one to insert a "Zero Width Joiner" before Japanese characters not allowed at start of a line and another one to insert a "Zero Width Joiner" after Japanese characters not allowed at end of a line.

Thank you again.

Claudio