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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Yes, you can. That is exactly the process I described. You select one instance and paste it into the find and the use the appropriate correct character and paste it into replace and then you let Sigil search from the first file to the last file and replace everyone it finds. All in one step. Be sure the entry in the dialog is set to multiple-files. If it is set to current file it will only do the one file.
To do this you must open the first file and switch to code view. Then you can open the find/replace menu and enter the text to find (find the multiple character instance but pasting both characters together) and the replace with the correct unicode character by cutting and pasting as I described.
If you have trouble finding the characters in Windows then you can also use the ones in our wiki. Look at page Special characters and scroll down until you find the character you want. The column titled Character shows it. Then highlight the character and use CTRL-C to copy it. Now, in the replace dialog of Sigil you can use CTRL-V to paste it in.
Dale |
Dale, I think I confused you (I seem to be doing that to a lot of people lately
). I understand how to do global replaces using the character set. I'm just frustrated that somehow the characters appear in the first place and would like to fix that problem. I have a number of books from the same publisher that I would like to merge into various anthologies and this strange character switch is happening in almost all of them. I've compared the html commands of one of the epubs that doesn't change the characters to one that does and they are virtually the same. It's just really strange.