Re: accented characters and regex ...

2014-09-28 Thread johnny smith
On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 08:12:12 -, Albretch Mueller lbrt...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes I need to write up or edit text in Spanish or German, so I need to be able to replace accented characters at once. A'lgebra I: ?'Do'nde encuentro una gui'a de te'rminos Matema'ticos u'nicos para el an~o?

Re: accented characters and regex ...

2014-09-28 Thread Albretch Mueller
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Re: accented characters and regex ...

2014-09-28 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Here's another macro, somewhat easier to follow and faster: REM * BASIC * Option Explicit Sub Main Dim SearchString(16) As String Dim ReplaceString(16) As String SearchString=Array( a', e', i', o',_ u'',u', n~, ?',_ !', A', E', I',_ O', U'',U', N~) ReplaceString=Array( á, é, í,

accented characters and regex ...

2014-09-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
Most of the times I type in English so I don't need to worry about accented characters Sometimes I need to write up or edit text in Spanish or German, so I need to be able to replace accented characters at once. After marking them up with ticks next/right to the character you can search all of

Re: accented characters and regex ...

2014-09-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 5:12 AM, Albretch Mueller lbrt...@gmail.com wrote: Most of the times I type in English so I don't need to worry about accented characters Sometimes I need to write up or edit text in Spanish or German, so I need to be able to replace accented characters at once.

Re: accented characters and regex ...

2014-09-27 Thread Brian Barker
At 04:12 27/09/2014 -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: Most of the times I type in English so I don't need to worry about accented characters. Sometimes I need to write up or edit text in Spanish or German, so I need to be able to replace accented characters at once. After marking them up with

Re: accented characters and regex ...

2014-09-27 Thread mt
I often have to do that with Italian accented letters - my simplistic approach is to keep a reference file with all accented (or otherwise modified) letters, which I copy and paste in the Replace with field. This doesn't take as long as I would need for a macro... but then I am not a

Re: accented characters and regex ...

2014-09-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
How? simple... switch your keyboard configuration to Spanish-Traditional (in Windows XP to 7, this is done from Control Panel, under regional settings, click on the Languages tab and then on the details button. Simplest are your assumptions. First, I don't use Windows; second, I find myself

Re: accented characters and regex ...

2014-09-27 Thread mt
G'day Albretch, On 27/9/14 at 12:25 AM, lbrt...@gmail.com (Albretch Mueller) wrote: How? simple... switch your keyboard configuration to Spanish-Traditional (in Windows XP to 7, this is done from Control Panel, under regional settings, click on the Languages tab and then on the details button.

Re: accented characters and regex ...

2014-09-27 Thread Doug
On 09/27/2014 04:12 AM, Albretch Mueller wrote: Most of the times I type in English so I don't need to worry about accented characters Sometimes I need to write up or edit text in Spanish or German, so I need to be able to replace accented characters at once. After marking them up with

Re: accented characters and regex ... more

2014-09-27 Thread Doug
On 09/27/2014 01:32 PM, Doug wrote: (See addendum to previous message, below.) I don't know how to replace them all at once but I know how to make them as you go. Set up a Compose key on your keyboard. I use right alt, but if you have a Microsoft k/b, you could use the right m/s key. Then

Re: accented characters and regex ...

2014-09-27 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2014-09-27 16:25 GMT+02:00 Albretch Mueller lbrt...@gmail.com: How? simple... switch your keyboard configuration to Spanish-Traditional (in Windows XP to 7, this is done from Control Panel, under regional settings, click on the Languages tab and then on the details button. Simplest are

Re: accented characters and regex ...

2014-09-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Albretch Mueller lbrt...@gmail.com wrote: Simplest are your assumptions. First, I don't use Windows; second, I find myself very often having to use more than one lang in the same text; third, at times I use other editors (for coding, for example); fourth, I

Re: accented characters and regex ...

2014-09-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
Obviously this is not what you wanted to hear. Maybe not I was kind of thinking of a regex which you can use with some java code so when you hit send it takes your text and works it in one go Of course, you can code such a thing easily with a char map strategy, but I was thinking of a regex,