Search for unicode ➔ does not work

TaskPaper
1

this is not essential, but maybe it is an easy fix. We use this as a special todo to document needed transformations like renaming, moving etc.

Nils

2

Not immediately able to reproduce that here.

If I:

  • copy-paste unicode ➔ from the title of this post into TaskPaper
  • paste the same string into the search field

then the search is immediately successful.

I wonder if the arrow character which you are typing in the search field is the same as the one in your text ?

It might be worth experimenting with AppleScript snippets like:

on run
    id of "➔"
    -- 10132
end run

vs

on run
    id of "→"
    -- 8594
end run

etc

to check that the code is the same.

There are various different unicode arrow characters which can be difficult to distinguish from each other.

3

PS once you have checked that all the arrows in your TaskPaper file have the same unicode value, you can create a sidebar search matching on the hexadecimal value of that code, prefixed by \u e.g.

matches \u2794

or, for more complex searches, if there turn out to be a variety of non-identical unicode arrows in there, you can

  • enclose the regex in quotes
  • double escape the \u

and write more flexible sidebar searches describing a character class like:

matches  "[\\u2794, \\u2192]"
4

I found the solution, it’s even easier: I simply have to type "➔" into the search field. The stored search pattern is ➔ @search("➔").

The char was 10132. I use a custom text replacement from the System Preferences that replaces a ->> when typing.

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