Chinese colon problem with default font

[orwithout]

Chinese colon problem with default font

[alankilborn]

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[rdipardo]

For reference, the OP is probably referring to U+FF1A (FULLWIDTH COLON).

@orwithout

There is no built-in function for detecting CJK punctuation marks, except maybe the lightly wider spacing around the character in more modern fonts than Courier New. Even the very old Consolas manages to distinguish them a little bit.

If the issue is really about invalid URLs creeping into the file, there's a plugin that will convert Unicode characters into their hexadecimal ordinals. You can try using that in combination with mark, search and replace to "clean" a file of Unicode punctuation, e.g.