How to search for curly quotes in regular expressions?

Questions & Suggestions
1

I’m trying to search for the (opening) curly quotes of the type ‘ and “, but I can only insert the closing ones in the Search field.

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Oops, sorry for that! It’s just the representation (because of the font?) that looks like I cannot insert the opening quotes. When I do type them manually, the macro works perfectly:

[.,?!;:"–“”‘’]

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The codes of double and single, left and right are (in decimal) [8220, 8221, 8216, 8217]

(Test, for example, in AS)

-- "“"
-- "”"
-- "‘"
-- "’"

-- showChar :: Int -> String
on showChar(intID)
    character id intID
end showChar

on run {}
    
    map(showChar, [8220, 8221, 8216, 8217])
    
end run


-- GENERIC FUNCTIONS

-- map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b]
on map(f, xs)
    script mf
        property lambda : f
    end script
    
    set lng to length of xs
    set lst to {}
    repeat with i from 1 to lng
        set end of lst to mf's lambda(item i of xs, i, xs)
    end repeat
    return lst
end map

I notice that when you enter the right-hand versions in KM action text fields, the display is, for some reason of the left hand version, but a quick search/replace suggests that the underlying data is not actually changed.

If you look at the http://userguide.icu-project.org/strings/regexp section on Regular Expression Metacharacters, you will see the syntax for specifying characters by their codes (which need to be converted to hex, or octal rather than decimal, I think).

5

PS for a quick JS dec -> hex conversion:

[8220, 8221, 8216, 8217].map(n => n.toString(16))

// ["201c", "201d", "2018", "2019"]