find non English and Arabic names

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2late
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find non English and Arabic names

Post by 2late »

hi everyone
how to find non English and Arabic names using Regex ?
English characters:

Code: Select all

[\u0000-\u007F]+
Arabic characters:

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[\u0600-\u06FF]+
therube
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Re: find non English and Arabic names

Post by therube »

non English
(what I call, "non-ascii") regex:[^\x00-\x7f]

regex: How to find €
2late
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Re: find non English and Arabic names

Post by 2late »

thanks but help me to understand, please:
why [^\x00-\x7f] can ignore English but [\x00-\x7f] doesn't only match English but also other languages?
Stamimail
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Re: find non English and Arabic names

Post by Stamimail »

http://www.utf8-chartable.de/

The key to understand the answer is to enable in Everything:
Options > View > [v] Show highlighted search terms

But currently, this important feature doesn't work (or more right to say - disabled ;) ) for items with RTL text... :(
I hope we will get a fix, as sooner as possible.

But I won't let you wait till then. I also can't see the highlighting, but it seems it is due to "digits" and "space".
void
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Re: find non English and Arabic names

Post by void »

Search for files not including English characters:
regex:[^\x{0000}-\x{007f}]

Search for files containing Arabic characters:
regex:[\x{0600}-\x{06ff}]

pcrepattern man page
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