Anyone know how to use Regex in notepad++ to find Arabic characters?

Question

I am trying to detect Arabic characters in a webpage\'s HTML using Notepad++ CTRL+F with regular expressions. I am entering the following as my search terms and it is return

Answer 1

This is happening because Notepadd++ regex engine is PCRE which doesn't support the syntax you have provided.

To match a unicode codepoint you have to use \x{NNNN} so your regular expression becomes:

[\x{0600}-\x{06FF}]

Answer 2

Because Notepad++'s implementation of Regular Expressions requires that you use the

\x{NNNN}

notation to match Unicode characters.

In your example,

\x{0628} 

can be used to match the ب (bāʾ,bet,beth,vet) character.

The \u symbol is used to match uppercase letters.

See http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/notepad-plus/index.php?title=Regular_Expressions#Ranges_or_kinds_of_characters

for an explanation of Notepad++'s regex syntax.