Well, I don't have control of the text. I wanted to eliminate the ZWJ from the text.
Whatever the semantics of the character, one should be able to search and replace any character for any other, I think. Best regards, Ron On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Tony Mechelynck < [email protected]> wrote: > On 07/09/12 08:27, Ron Aaron wrote: > >> Given this text (the character sequence is 200d 05b9): >> >> ֹ >> >> The command: >> >> s/\%u200d\Z/x/g >> >> Gives the result: >> >> xֹ >> >> (0078 200d 05b9) >> >> I would expect the 200d to be replaced with an 'x'. >> >> (I attached the text so you can see it in vim a bit more clearly) >> >> > Well, a little context (which wouldn't have hurted in the original post): > > U+200D is ZERO WIDTH JOINER, a zero-width character, shown by Vim as > <200d>. This one is not a combining character but a zero-width character > which influences how the characters around it are displayed. For instance > in Arabic it may influence which presentation forms are used. > > U+05B9 is HEBREW POINT HOLAM, a Hebrew niqqud vowel sign which appears as > a dot left-above a Hebrew consonant. This one is a combining character. It > represents the vowel "o". > > Adding a holam to a zero-width joiner is a little, hm, weird, shall we > say? But, OK, there's no accounting for tastes. > > I get the same as you do: the x is inserted before the ZWJ instead of > replacing it; but there is more: with a more "normal" sequence such as 05E7 > 05B9 (qof-holam) I see exactly the same thing (the x is inserted before the > letter instead of replacing it), and that whether or not there is something > else on the line, and whether or not 'rightleft' and/or 'delcombine' are > set. > > I think you have found a bug. > > > Best regards, > Tony. > -- > WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then? > ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake, [angels sing] her arm clad in the purest > shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the > water > signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry > Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king! > The Quest for the Holy Grail (Monty > Python) > > -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
