wReplace

Replace many text phrases at once

Free program, which allows you to change/replace multiple letters and phrases at a time. It is easy to create and save lists of changes/replacements, so that you can reuse them.

wReplace resembles Notepad. Like Notepad, it works with plain text Unicode files.

Major features

• Easy as Notepad.
• Fast and free.
• Export and import whole replacement table.
• National characters support (Unicode).

Applications

Character conversion

Changing one set of characters into another. Useful for making HTML pages when you deal with different coding defined with <meta http-equiv="content-type" ... > tag.

Romanization (latinisation)

Conversion of a text written in a non-Roman alphabet into Roman alphabet.

Transliteration

Writing down a text (or a word) written in one alphabet with letters of another alphabet.

Cyrillization

Conversion of a text written in a non-Cyrillic alphabet into Cyrillic alphabet.

Transcription (phonetics, phonemics, phonemic orthography)

Writing down phonemes of a spoken language, so that you can reproduce them later. Also, you may write down phonemes of one language using letters of another.

Other

Simple substitution cipher (e.g. ROT13, ROT47).
Morse code conversion.

Remove diacritics (accents)

wReplace is an excellent tool for national characters conversion into standard set of ASCII characters. This is useful because many programs do not correctly display non-ASCII national characters; for example, programs which display film subtitles sometimes have this problem. The change/replacement is run according to a pattern (“Diacritic to ASCII”) available in the program and may look like this:

Ě → E
Ą → A
Ł → L
ß → ss
etc.

Problem with national characters in film subtitles

No cóż, mogę powiedzieć "kamera mnie kocha"!	→	No coz, moge powiedziec "kamera mnie kocha"!

Learn languages

wReplace is useful for language learning. It allows you to convert between different notations/writing systems, and to approximately phonetically transcribe text. Possible applications:

• Japanese, text conversion both ways:
  • Romaji ↔ Hiragana,
  • Romaji ↔ Katakana,
  • Katakana ↔ Hiragana.
• Russian; Cyrillic, conversion into Latin phonetic transcription ISO 9-1995.

wReplace can be used free of charge.

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wReplace keywords

string replace, search and replace, find and replace, search replace, find replace, replace text, multi replace, multiple replace, replace characters, text converter, convert text, Morse code, Unicode, rot13, rot47, transcription, transliteration, romanization, phonetics, diacritic, diacritical, diacritics.

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Read more:

• Download wReplace
• wReplace screenshots
• FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
• Online help

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On the Web

4 Cool Applications To Make You More Productive With Text Editing — Article by Varun Kashyap
Described apps: TriX, Transfz, wReplace and PhraseExpress.