Andy Pepperdine wrote:
On Friday 09 February 2007 13:02, A. den Oudsten wrote:
Ray Hurst wrote:
Thelma Sabim wrote:
Hello Users,
I managed finding & replacing some of the special characters using the
expression \t, \n and ^$.
However, no results using the expression \xXXX
For example, I want to replace the Euro symbol with the British currency
symbol (Pound Sterling).
OOo finds \x20Ac which is the Euro symbol but it replaces with the
expression \x20A4 and not with the Pound Sterling symbol.
I tried other special characters (like 1/4 replacing 1/8, TM replacing
R...
and the result was the same, the finding process located the special
character but the 'replacing expression' was inserted instead of the
symbol
it represents.
Does anyone have a solution for that? Is this a bug?
Thank you in advance.
Regards,
I suggest you use the Insert->Special Character function to do this.
It takes the guess work out of it.
Ray
[...]
My problem is that I can't insert special characters in the 'Find and
Replace' dialogue box to do this kind of things.WordPerfect was
wonderfull in this!!
Andre den Oudsten
[...]
I think there is a problem in calling these "Special characters". To me,
a "special character" is something like a square root symbol that is not
readily available under one's normal input method. What we are talking about
here are breaks in the formatting of the text. In OOo there are no characters
associated with these formatting changes. What is really required, I gather,
is the ability to find them and replace with them. However, I can see lots of
difficulties in defining just what is actually wanted.
The breaks that one might wish to insert are (at least): tab, newline,
newparagraph, newcolumn, newpage (any more?)
And in each case, there are questions as to what they might mean in the
replace field. For example, if a new paragraph is chosen, what style is to be
chosen for the paragraph before and after the paragraph break? If a tab is
chosen, does it retain the italic and bold font attributes (or language
etc.), or return to the paragraph defaults. If a newpage, what page style is
applied to the preceding and following pages? etc.
Without discussing this in depth, I think it is difficult to identify
the "natural" behaviour (should consensus exist anyway).
Everything is in Unicode nowadays. What they mean by specical characters
is that the character code is not in the original ASCII code set.
I had to do an insert special into the document and the cut and relace
it in the find/replace box. I thought this was a bug as I should be able
to insert->Special Character directly into the find/replace dialog box.
Ray
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