Accents/Special Characters

I'm looking for a grep or script that will allow me to put accents on letters. For instance, taking e and making it ē with the macron above it. Our authors indicate they want this by indicating it this way:
e[set macron over e]
At this point, I have simple find/replaces loacking all of those and replacing them with the ē. It's the same for every letter asking for a specific accent above.
I'm hoping to figure out a grep or script that will keep my find/replace list from getting too big. At this point, I've got 35 find/replace just to locate these, and my list is growing every time I encounter another accent. Considering how much each letter has...
Anybody know of a simple way to do this?
Thank you!

Hi Matthew,
Which option you use to replace your text in find option.
Otherwise use the "Clipboard Contents, Formatted" in the "Change To" option.
Clipboard contents used to change the recent copy in your active document.
Please find the screenshot. May it will helpful....
Thanks in advance
BEGINNER

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I've contacted Apple about this many months ago, but like any complaint I've had in the past, never heard of them.
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Hi,
I had almost the same problem (only different language) and manged to solve it after "google-ing" these links:
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https://oraclespin.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/setting-nls_lang-for-oracle/
http://docs.oracle.com/html/B13804_02/gblsupp.htm
FYI, system is AIX 5.3 with Oracle 10g.
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regards!

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Hello Starfighter
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It might be simpler for you to use the keyboard viewer instead. When you hold down the ⌥ key you will notice that several of the keys on the keyboard appear orange. This is because they are designed to work in combination with another keystroke to input an accented character e.g. The sequence ⌥ u e will produce the character ë.
I hope that helps.

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https://oraclespin.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/setting-nls_lang-for-oracle/
http://docs.oracle.com/html/B13804_02/gblsupp.htm
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Hope this helps,
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when using the Dreamweaver 'Set Text of Layer' behavior,
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Why does text on certain portions of websites, usually when adjacent text contains special characters, become jumbled into seemingly random sets of characters that are not in any way jumbled when viewing the source of the webpage? How can I fix this?

When viewing most text on most websites, it displays properly. However, there are two instances where text will either tend to, or consistently, become jumbled into a mess of seemingly random characters. Oddly enough, these seemingly random characters are not, in fact, random. The same weird character will be used to replace the same regular English text character consistently across the entire area that has been jumbled.
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The second instance where this happens is when a website uses specially formatted text in some form or another. I, not being an expert at web development, am not sure what kind of formatting causes it, but I can provide consistent examples in lieu of my experience:
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[http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/9564/firefoxcharencodingissu.jpg]
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- Example 2:
[http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/9564/firefoxcharencodingissu.jpg]
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I've found at least one other topic here regarding this issue, but Apple has yet to address it, or even confirm that it's in fact an issue.
A big portion of my library consists of international artists, many who have special/nonstandard characters in their names (e.g. "Tiësto"). In previous versions of iTunes, I could search for "Tiesto" (note the absence of the umlaut over the 'e') and all of those tracks would appear. However, after upgrading to iTunes 9, I'm forced to search for "Tiësto" in order to view those tracks.
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Clearly, something has changed between iTunes 8 and 9. And it's incredibly frustrating. A big chunk of my library is virtually inaccessible to me now, unless I search for terms that don't contain special characters.
Apple, **PLEASE** address this issue. I'm not the only one with the problem and it's become a huge pain in my side to have to work around this.

I don't see how it's sloppy or why there should be any reason that it shouldn't have given you both.
Even putting aside that gracenote and others don't have consistent spelling in their databases, that when you download from the iTunes store, who knows what you're going to get, so that one's library could be all over the place and one might not even notice it, accents and other markings don't change the fact that a u is the same letter as ú.
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It's a huge pain that looking for an album that has "Zürich" in the field and I type in "Zurich" I can't find it. I have to think about if I really do have that album, maybe I deleted it by accident, etc. And then I think to type "rich" and then it pops up.
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I would like to find all Special Characters in a table. I am currently using the code below. Not sure if this gets all of them.
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from [dbo].[SV20150122]
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SQL

Depends on what you want to count as a special character. Depending on your collation, your query might not consider é (for example) as a special character. The same goes for other accented letters. If that's what you want, then fine.
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Union All
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Tom

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KingTor wrote:
The use of apple-e for an accent egu
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