[Solved] Replace Unicode characters with ANSI

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w64bit
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[Solved] Replace Unicode characters with ANSI

Post by w64bit »

Is there any command to use in order to replace Unicode characters with ANSI (file and folder names)?
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therube
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Re: Replace Unicode characters with ANSI

Post by therube »

For a single character (or to replace sets, one at a time), F2 (Replace).

Select your files/directories
F2
Regex (enable)

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Old:  ȋ
New:  i
That will replace the first instance of ȋ with i.


There is a way to replace all instances of a character too... (once I remember, or find it ;-)).
Well, this works, but is different from what I've forgotten from before:

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Old:  ȋ+
New:  i
raccoon
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Re: Replace Unicode characters with ANSI

Post by raccoon »

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=10690&p=40772&hili ... ize#p40739
void wrote: Thu Oct 28, 2021 5:17 am Everything 1.5.0.1282a adds a #remove-diacritics: preprocessor search function to remove diacritics from the specified text.
They won't be replaced with ANSI (33-255) but instead ASCII (33-127).
void
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Re: Replace Unicode characters with ANSI

Post by void »

Select your files/directories
F2
Regex (enable)

Code: Select all

Old: ȋ
New: i

That will replace the first instance of ȋ with i.
Enabling regex will replace all occurrences of old format with the new format.
(Disabling regex will replace only the first occurrence)

Select your files/directories
F2
Regex (enable)

Old: ȋ
New: i


-or-


Select your files/directories
F2
Regex (disable)

Old: %1
New: #remove-diacritics:<%1>
(removes all diacritics, not just ȋ->i and also normalizes the text: æ->ae)
therube
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Re: Replace Unicode characters with ANSI

Post by therube »

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Enabling regex will replace all occurrences of old format with the new format.
Sure enough.
Wonder what I was seeing at the time...?
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w64bit
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Re: Replace Unicode characters with ANSI

Post by w64bit »

Thank you all very much.
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