Replacing special character "single quote"

[Michael Pearson]

Hi Verner,
 
With the Use Wildcards checkbox selected:
 
To find a single straight quote use: \"
To find a single straight quote at the beginning of a word use:\"\<     (WARNING: This will find and select the first character in the word, so can't be used to automatically Find/Change all of the items that should be open quotes.)
To find a single straight quote at the end of a word use: \>\"     (WARNING: This will find and select the last character in the word, so can't be used to automatically Find/Change all of the items that should be close quotes.)
To replace with a straight double quote use: "
To replace with a curly open quote use: \`
To replace with a curly close quote use: \'
 
Unfortunately, FM simply doesn't have the regular expression type capabilities you likely need to do a global, automatic Find/Change in your circumstance, but the above should get you close. I resort to FrameScript & RegEx when I find myself in this uncomfortable position.
 
HTH,
Mike
 
> Subject: Replacing special character "single quote"
> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:35:28 +0100
> From: verner.andersen at radiometer.dk
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> 
> Hello
> 
> Our Trados translator has inserted single quotes in stead of double
> quotes in the destination source. This results in the text look strange
> in Framemaker as the single quote is probably considered a control
> character in Framemaker.
> 
> How do I search and replace the single quote with a double quote? The
> search function doesn't find anything when I copy the single quote into
> to find box and click search. Is there a way to search for special
> characters such as the single quote.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Verner Andersen
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