Unicode Content search
Posted: 25 Feb 2022 00:09
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).
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).