Embed superscript style in text

Hi, I am currently working on a project using InDesign CS2 and the plugin InCatalog to pull in text from a database into our InDesign book. All the copy being brough in is just plain text, so formatting is done after it is brought into InDesign. There are certain characters in the text we are pulling in (specifically the registered trademark symbol) that we would like styled with superscript. Right now everytime we sync the document with the database, we have to do a replace to find all of those trademark symbols and apply the superscript.
Are there any special strings or codes we can store in the database text that InDesign would know to convert to superscript? For example I noticed when copying the registered symbol into the replace box, it shows up as ^r. Was just hoping there was some way for us to avoid the step of search/replace every time we sync.
Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated,
Patrick

I think you might be able to do this with a nested paragraph style.
Create your superscript character style, then for the paragraph style that you use for your text add a nested style like this:
none up to 1 (insert the symbols you want to superscript as a string)
superscript through 1 (insert the symbols you want to superscript as a string)
In CS2 you'll have to repeat that sequence at least as many times as you will ever have the symbols in a paragraph. CS3 is a bit more sophisticated in its repeat ability.
The trick is the string of symbols. Don't use spaces between them, and the string cannot contain any character that you would ever not want to superscript. You might have to copy and paste them into the field. InDesign uses strings in this case in a non-intuitive way. Rather than matching the entire string, InDesign will use the first instance it sees of any single character in the string as the trigger.
If you are careful, and you can limit the characters, you should do fine, but do some tests on a sample paragraph. If you see whole words or parts of words superscripted you have a problem. Note that since this is triggered by single characters you can't use it for superscripting things like ordinals or multi-digit exponents, but I can't think of a case off the top of my head where a multi-character superscript wouldn't involve characters that shouldn't be superscripted most of the time.
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