Not sure if the utf-8 characters will go thru with this, but hopefully it does get thru in some fashion.
On 15 Aug 2022 at 16:04, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: Date sent: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 16:04:44 +0900 To: users@global.libreoffice.org From: Thomas Blasejewicz <ny...@hb.tp1.jp> Subject: [libreoffice-users] "reverse solidus" not working in the find dialog box > Good afternoon from Japan > Actually, I have asked about this in 2018 and a number of things were > suggested. > Unfortunately none did solve the problem. > Problem: > I have a long file with about 3,500 lines (each line = item) looking like: > HKES [] /(n) xxxxxx/ > > where I would like to replace the "space[" and "]space" with tabs > so that I can import the file into Calc. > > However, working with Japanese Windows 10, Japanese keyboard etc. > NOTHING I tried so far > allowed me to enter a \t (=> THIS is supposed to be a backslash) as a > regular expression, telling > the computer to replace the space[ with a tab. > > Question: > Is there a trick telling the computer to replace any key sequence with a > tab? > > Thank you. > In looking at one line you gave. Have a program findnoascii to find utf-8 code and this is what I get. line as I pulled from email (seems utf-8 character don't show with standard font). HKES [] /(n) xxxxxx/ Results from my nofindascii 1 4 c2a0 [ ] 1 6 c2a0 [ ] 1 8 c2a0 [ ] 1 11 e889af [] 1 14 e79fa5 [] 1 17 e889af [] 1 20 e883bd [] 1 25 e3828a [] 1 28 e38287 [] 1 31 e38186 [] 1 34 e381a1 [] 1 37 e3828a [] 1 40 e38287 [] 1 43 e38186 [] 1 46 e381ae [] 1 49 e38186 [] 3 c2a0 [ ] NO-BREAK SPACE (U+00A0) 3 e38186 [] HIRAGANA LETTER U (U+3046) 1 e381a1 [] HIRAGANA LETTER TI (U+3061) 1 e381ae [] HIRAGANA LETTER NO (U+306E) 2 e38287 [] HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL YO (U+3087) 2 e3828a [] HIRAGANA LETTER RI (U+308A) 1 e79fa5 [] know, perceive, comprehend (U+77E5) 1 e883bd [] "to be able; can, permitted to; ability (U+80FD) " 2 e889af [] good, virtuous, respectable (U+826F) using tr '[' '\t' <weirdmsg | tr ']' '\t' >weirdmsg.csv get file that can be loaded in libreoffice weirdmsg.csv Might want to change no-break spaces to a tab as well? > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mi...@guam.net mailto:msetze...@gmail.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy