Unicode Content search

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CWyss
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Unicode Content search

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There's already a topic "Full Unicode Support", but I'm not asking for that. What I'd like is a check box in the Content Search tab (maybe under the "It's a hex string" check box that indicates that the string you pasted should be interpreted as a Unicode search string. You cannot just paste a Unicode string into the box because only the first character is picked up (due to the high byte zero that looks like a UTF-8 string terminator).

There are really two cases here: 1. Pasting a UTF-16 Unicode string as the search text or 2. Pasting a UTF-8 string that you want to be used to search for UTF-16 matching strings in the target file(s).

This would be particularly useful in searching XML files which are UTF-16 encoded (which is what I was trying to do and had to use another utility to do my search).

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Re: Unicode Content search

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I'm not quite sure what you mean. I can paste a Unicode string into the box without problems.

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