[SOLVED] editor.replace with quotes

[L&E Destock]

Hello,

I would like to ask you something about the Python script.
I'm actualy using it only to mass  Search/Replace  text in
huge files.

So I'm using for example :   editor.replace("MICHAEL",
"Michael")

the issue comes when I need to replace some text that is
already between " " ,  so here is something I tried but it
didn't work :

example :   editor.replace(""HELLO"", ""Hello"")
As you can see I try to replace "HELLO" by "Hello" , that's
why I duplicated the " " , but it doesn't work , do you have
any idea on how to fix that issue ?

Could I change the default  separator "  "   with   / /
So I'd have :

editor.replace(/"HELLO"/, /"Hello"/)

if yes where can I make that change ?

Thanks :)

ANSWERED BY  davegb3 :

You don't need to escape quotes around normal text -e.g.  editor.replace("MICHAEL","Michael")

To put a quote in it, just escape the quote that's inside the text
editor.replace("\"MICHAEL\"", "\"Michael\"")

Note that you can also use the other form of quotes to quote stuff. That's a nice feature of
python, is that it allows you to use the quotes that mean the other form doesn't need
escaping -e.g.
editor.replace('"Michael"', '"MICHAEL"');

Hope that helps,
Dave.

[L&E Destock]

Sorry to come back again to you but the script  doesn't work , it doesn't even launch when I use this code :

editor.replace("é","é")
editor.replace("è","è")
editor.replace("ê","ê")
editor.replace("ë","ë")
editor.replace("ç","ç")
editor.replace("à","à")
editor.replace("â","â")
editor.replace("î","î")
editor.replace("ô","ô")

Do you have any idea why ? : /

By doing this I want to change every special characters into HTML code

[L&E Destock]

SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe9' in file C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Notepad++\plugins\Config\PythonScript\scripts\marques.py on line 1, but no encoding declared;

[L&E Destock]

I tried by adding 

# coding= UTF-8

To the first line , now the scripts launch but it doesn't change any special character.

[L&E Destock]

my .py file was ANSI coding , I changed it into UTF-8 and it looks like it's working now… I'll get back soon here if I've any issue  =))