Replacing bidirectional unicode strings/regexps

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  • Ernst Elzas

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    Replacing bidirectional unicode strings/regexps

    Hello,

    I've tried to write a "sed s/original/replacement/g " -like script, but
    for dealing with situations where both original and replacement contain
    a mixture of left to right and right to left text (for now, English and
    Hebrew) Both the texts can span multiple lines, and the replacement has
    to be in files of a specific type (html) in all subdirectories. I'll
    probably need to create the script (or at least the text to be replaced
    and it's replacement) in some editor, since commandlines don't seem to
    like bidirectional texts that much. I figured this would be easy, but
    have not managed to get something working, nor have I found examples to
    use. I did find some Python scripts doing related things, but they went
    wrong as soon as I tried to adapt them to bidirectional text, the Perl
    sed-like script also looked promising, but I did not manage to get that
    working either in this situation. Please note that I had no prior
    experience with the use of either language, and might easily have
    overlooked the simple solution.

    Thanks for your help,

    Ernst

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