Everything finds “.” (period) when searching for “•”

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SuperDude
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Everything finds “.” (period) when searching for “•”

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When searching through a folder for this character:
Everything also finds all “.” (periods, no quotes)

I am trying to find all instances of the character so I can change them to a character, but with this little problem, Everything is finding every file in the folder (since every file has a period before their extension).
void
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Re: Everything finds “.” (period) when searching for “•”

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With Match Diacritics disabled, Everything will treat . and • as the same character.

Please try the following search:

diacritics:•



I will look into forcing Everything to always treat • and . as different characters.
Mizufluffy
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Re: Everything finds “.” (period) when searching for “•”

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void wrote: Sat Sep 18, 2021 11:29 pm Please try the following search:

diacritics:•
I noticed that another alternative option that works is
regex:•
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Re: Everything finds “.” (period) when searching for “•”

Post by void »

This will also work because regex: always matches diacritics.
SuperDude
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Re: Everything finds “.” (period) when searching for “•”

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Thank you once again!
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Re: Everything finds “.” (period) when searching for “•”

Post by void »

Everything 1.5.0.1285a removes the bullet (•) to period (.) mapping.

I've also removed the following non-standard Latin to ASCII mappings:
ˍ → _ (#02CD;MODIFIER LETTER LOW MACRON;Lm;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;)
‵ → ` (#2035;REVERSED PRIME;Po;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;)
· → . (#00B7;MIDDLE DOT;Po;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;)
¸ → , (#00B8;CEDILLA;Sk;0;ON;<compat> 0020 0327;;;;N;SPACING CEDILLA;;;;)
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Re: Everything finds “.” (period) when searching for “•”

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Where do/did these mappings come from? And what prompted their removals? Unicode update?
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Re: Everything finds “.” (period) when searching for “•”

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These mappings were originally from Windows API call WideCharToMultiByte with the ASCII code page (20127)

These mappings are not used in the Unicode standard.

These mappings have been removed to follow the Unicode standards.
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