Remove all occurrences of unicode U+2009 in my document

Question

I have .tex document into which "thinspace" was inserted, most likely while copying text from another document.

I am currently using \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2009}{\,} to skip over this occurrence. Is it possible to search and delete this character from the document itself as it is not required.

I am using a Linux Mint 20.1, pdflatex and Texmaker as the frontend.

Do a search-and-replace in your editor, or do it with PERL. – Davislor May 21 '21 at 18:33 — Davislor, May 21 '21 at 18:33
Does this answer your question? Unicode char {U+200B} – Oni May 21 '21 at 20:12 — Oni, May 21 '21 at 20:12

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered May 21 '21 at 21:26

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You should be able to remove the character in any editor, but as you are on linux so probably have perl, you could use a commandline script:

perl -C -p -e 's/\x{2009}//g' file.tex > file-new.tex

will make a version of the file with all U+2009 removed.

answered May 21 '21 at 21:26

David Carlisle

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered May 22 '21 at 05:41

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If you are using a Unicode engine (XeTeX or LuaTeX) then you can set this character as ignored in TeX processing:

\catcode`\^^^^2009 = 9

answered May 22 '21 at 05:41

wipet

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 22 '21 at 08:39

since you are on linux, the good old Stream EDitor (sed)

sed -i 's/old-text/new-text/g' input.tex

or the more friendly to handle rpl

rpl "old-text" "new-text" --encoding UTF-8 -q input.tex

would be my choice if you have to do it on the command line.

for some more possible ways on linux have a look at unix.stackexchange.com

otherwise, just use your text editor of choice.

Remove all occurrences of unicode U+2009 in my document

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