In Sublime Text, how can I replace a character with its Unicode? - unicode

Question

In Sublime Text, how can I replace a character with its Unicode? For example, I want to replace 中 with 4E2D (or \u4E2D or something similar).

Answer 1

Sublime Text can be extended through Python plugins:
Sublime comes with functionality that generates a skeleton of Python code needed to write a simple plugin. Select Tools | Developer | New Plugin... in the menu.
Replace its content with the following code snippet:
import sublime
import sublime_plugin
class SwapuniCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
def run( self, edit):
for region in self.view.sel():
if not region.empty():
# Get the selected text
s = self.view.substr(region)
# Transform it
x = s.encode('raw_unicode_escape').decode()
if x == s:
x = s.encode('raw_unicode_escape').decode('unicode_escape')
# Replace the selection with transformed text
self.view.replace(edit, region, x)
Save to Packages/User/swapuni.py.
You can run it via entering view.run_command('swapuni') in the Sublime Text console (accessible via Ctrl+~), or by the following sublime-keymap (use your own keyboard shortcut in Preferences | Key Bindings):
[
{ "keys": ["ctrl+alt+r"], "command": "swapuni" }
]