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Thanks again, highly appreciated!

I created quickly a script to run Perl regular expressions to convert all non ASCII characters in an opened file to HTML entities. I used Named character references list of HTML5 stored in a JSON file and converted the JSON file to the attached script with some regular expression replaces and addin...

That depends on the project. But IMHO, that's not relevant for my use case. Basically, I'd like to replace let's say 'ä' with 'ä', 'ö' with 'ö' and so forth. Or in broader terms, a script (template) with a search and replace of a set of characters/strings with another set might already help.

I've searched around for a while but haven't (yet) found a solution for replacing, say all German Umlauts in a file with their respective HTML code (number or name). I suppose I could try to write a script, but before I attempt that, I wonder if there isn't some solution for that already...?

Are the built-in commands supposed to work for all file types which have a syntax highlighting file? I have an (old?)  UNIX Shell Scripts wordfile file lying around, also downloaded the (newer?)  Bourne & Korn Shell - Comment selection/Uncomment selection works for neither. The script here however w...

I have looked more deeply on the four non standard wordfiles and improved them further, see attached ZIP file with once more improved wordfiles. Wow, thanks a lot, I'll have a look as soon as I'll work with one of these files types again!

Great, thanks a lot for the quick help!

Hi, I've just figured out that I probably need to have individual .uew files per language in %APPDATA% \IDMComp\UltraEdit\ wordfiles now. So I copied sections from my old %APPDATA% \IDMComp\UltraEdit\ wordfile.uew into distinct files in directory %APPDATA% \IDMComp\UltraEdit\ wordfiles and reloaded ...