[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by BKh

I have about 150 search and replace pairs and I'm trying to put them into the sigil_searches.ini file manually.

You'll need to replace all accented characters with hexadecimal Unicode codes:

ā \x101
ī \x12b
ū \x16b
ḷ \x1e37
ṇ \x1e47

For example to replace Krishna with Kṛṣṇa you'd use:

1\Name=Krishna
1\Find=Krishna
1\Replace=K\x1e5b\x1e63\x1e47\x61

(For some odd reason the last "a" also needed to be encoded as a hexadecimal character. Maybe @KevinH or @DiapDealer can shed some light on this.)

Originally Posted by theducks

A Import / Export plugin please

The problem with this idea is that Calibre saves additional information with each entry (case_sensitive, mode, dot_all) that would be lost if you converted it to the Sigil Saved Searches format.

For example, the above search looks like this in tweak_book_gui.json:

{
  "searches": [
    {
      "case_sensitive": false, 
      "dot_all": false, 
      "find": "Krishna", 
      "mode": "normal", 
      "name": "Krishna", 
      "replace": "Kṛṣṇa"
    }
  ], 
  "version": 1}

Importing Sigil seaved searches into Calibre Editor should be relatively easy for a Calibre programmer. @kovidgoyal might even add this as a feature to Calibre Editor if enough users ask for it.