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?
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