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- Wed Jan 13, 2021 8:00 pm
- Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
- Topic: Suggestion: Provide Unicode to Perl Escape Codes filter
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2294
Re: Suggestion: Provide Unicode to Perl Escape Codes filter
As I use PCRE Perl Escape codes in a lot of my replace lists for TextPipe, I think I know what I'm talking about. 8) Also, btw, most ASCII characters never need to be converted to Perl Escape Codes for use in replace lists. Those should also be excluded if you do implement the suggestion as an inter...
- Wed Jan 13, 2021 2:05 am
- Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
- Topic: Suggestion: Provide Unicode to Perl Escape Codes filter
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2294
Re: Suggestion: Provide Unicode to Perl Escape Codes filter
Dear Simon, The outputs are not proper Perl Escape codes that would be recognised by a PCRE replace filter. For codepoints beyond \xFF the should be {braces} around each character code! e.g. ðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ ĀāĂ㥹ĆćĈĉĊċČčĎď 𐀀𐀁𐀂𐀃𐀄𐀅𐀆𐀇𐀈𐀉𐀊𐀋𐀍𐀎𐀏 should convert to \xF0\xF1\xF2\xF3\xF4\xF5\xF6\xF7\xF8\xF9...
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 6:06 am
- Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
- Topic: Suggestion: Provide Unicode to Perl Escape Codes filter
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2294
Re: Suggestion: Provide Unicode to Perl Escape Codes filter
No - that makes no sense to me! Perl Escape Codes for Unicode characters have a variable number of bytes, depending upon how each character is represented in UTF-8 . Squishing everything to 2 bytes would not work for their use in external character replacement list files (such as tab delimited), as ...
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 9:55 pm
- Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
- Topic: Suggestion: Provide Unicode to Perl Escape Codes filter
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2294
Re: Suggestion: Provide Unicode to Perl Escape Codes filter
Hi Simon, For codepoints 00-FF (in the ANSI range), the leading 00 should be omitted, e.g. \x{00A0} becomes simply \x{A0} because these are single byte characters. Many UTF-8 byte codes are more than 2 bytes! e.g. タ is \xEF\xBE\x80 And beyond the BMP , each Unicode character requires 4 bytes. So yes...
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 7:38 am
- Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
- Topic: Software bug: Convert HTML/XML Entities to Text
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9337
Re: Software bug: Convert HTML/XML Entities to Text
Thanks, Simon.
Happy New Year!
David
Happy New Year!
David
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 7:37 am
- Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
- Topic: Suggestion: Provide Unicode to Perl Escape Codes filter
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2294
Re: Suggestion: Provide Unicode to Perl Escape Codes filter
Hi Simon, A filter list would be somewhat unwieldy ! It would need to have 143859 entries - one for each named character in Unicode 13.0 . Given that the outputs are eminently calculable, it would be simpler (and surely much less effort) to design two suitable internal filters. And using formulae fo...
- Mon Dec 28, 2020 5:40 am
- Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
- Topic: Software bug: Convert HTML/XML Entities to Text
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9337
Re: Software bug: Convert HTML/XML Entities to Text
Was it indeed fixed in version 11.6 ?
- Thu Oct 08, 2020 4:16 am
- Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
- Topic: Suggestion: Add left/right margin using external file or internal table
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3970
Re: Suggestion: Add left/right margin using external file or internal table
Hi Simon,
The illustrative example was highly specific yet I feel sure that the same concept could be very useful in other contexts.
David
The illustrative example was highly specific yet I feel sure that the same concept could be very useful in other contexts.
David
- Wed Aug 26, 2020 7:11 pm
- Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
- Topic: What's new? still displays TextPipe v11.6
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1764
What's new? still displays TextPipe v11.6
I just downloaded TextPipe v11.7
Then I clicked the link to http://www.datamystic.com/textpipe/whatsnew.html
only to discover that it still shows only what's new in v11.6
This needs to be fixed.
David
Then I clicked the link to http://www.datamystic.com/textpipe/whatsnew.html
only to discover that it still shows only what's new in v11.6
This needs to be fixed.
David
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:59 am
- Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
- Topic: Word documents to text / RTF
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1813
Re: Word documents to text / RTF
NB. The Help page for the Input filter needs to be updated to include "OpenOffice ODS, ODT, ODP" files. If you can process within ZIP files, it's also worth asking if TextPipe could be enhanced to process within .7z files? See https://www.7-zip.org/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Zip and many o...
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:53 am
- Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
- Topic: Word documents to text / RTF
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1813
Word documents to text / RTF
The help for these two filters refers to .DOC files only, and not to .DOCX files. Word documents to RTF Word documents to text Yet the help for Input filter includes: Process inside compressed files (ZIP, DOCX, XLSX and PPTX) This option allows TextPipe to process the compressed files inside a .ZIP,...
- Thu Jul 09, 2020 1:32 am
- Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
- Topic: Suggestion: Add left/right margin using external file or internal table
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3970
Re: Suggestion: Add left/right margin using external file or internal table
Awaiting a response!
- Tue Jun 30, 2020 4:21 am
- Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
- Topic: Broken ribbon menu starting from 11.5
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2010
Re: Broken ribbon menu starting from 11.5
My current workaround is to keep the ribbon minimised.
That seems to work satisfactorily and hides the annoyance caused by seeing a blank ribbon.
What we need to know is whether the issue is unique to Windows 7 or also happens in Windows 10 & Windows 8.2?
David
That seems to work satisfactorily and hides the annoyance caused by seeing a blank ribbon.
What we need to know is whether the issue is unique to Windows 7 or also happens in Windows 10 & Windows 8.2?
David
- Tue Jun 30, 2020 4:15 am
- Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
- Topic: Broken ribbon menu starting from 11.5
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2010
Re: Broken ribbon menu starting from 11.5
Simon replied on 2020-05-11 as follows: Sorry, Windows 7 is EOL. Happy to investigate if it happens under Windows 10. My reply to that was: I’m quite aware that Win7 is EOL. With the lockdown continuing, it may be some time before I buy a new PC. My Toshiba laptop is 10 years old. It’s not worth try...
- Tue Jun 30, 2020 4:12 am
- Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
- Topic: Broken ribbon menu starting from 11.5
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2010
Re: Broken ribbon menu starting from 11.5
I reported this by email to Simon on 2020-05-08. Hi Simon, Today whenever I first launch TextPipe, the ribbon at first displays blank. See https://www.dropbox.com/s/oindrpg9g0rjuw6/Screenshot%202020-05-08%2012.02.46.png?dl=0 If I resize the Window (or switch apps & back), it returns to normal. Not s...