is there a way to highlight all the special accent characters in sublime text or any other text editor?

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kashive picture kashive · Dec 20, 2012 · Viewed 38.3k times · Source

I a using the the HTML encode special characters in Sublime text to convert all the special character into their HTML code. I have a lot of accented characters in different parts of the file. So, it would be great if I could select all the special character and then use the plugin to convert all at once!

Is there a regex that helps select all special characters only?

Answer

Mikko Ohtamaa picture Mikko Ohtamaa · Dec 21, 2012

Yes.

Sublime text supports regular expression and you can select all non-ASCII (code point > 128) characters. This regex find should be enough for you:

[^\x00-\x7F]

Just search and replace.

But if you are doing manual HTML encode in the first place you are doing it wrong. Save your files as UTF-8 encoding (Sublime Text 2 default) and make sure your web server also sends out those files as UTF-8. No conversion, encoding or anything needed.

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