Reply To: Character Style Automation for Foreign words

Hi Abbas, I have tried to write a code to minimize the manual work and have included the basic latin characters used normally. I have not taken the complete list of special characters. Try to populate the GREP code to work wonders. As I said earlier that the code has been tested on CS5, but that was on MAC, however, I test the code at home on ME and tweaked it a little. Please check the InDesign file which contains the Urdu text, paragraph style and a character style:

https://ftf-1118.yousendit.com/download/1/E3E436DE339849CE/65b7b44b39ab98da7ac1e91a4677bd9289763147/R2L-ParaStyle-With-L2R-CharStyle.indd?download_id=4710108915&user_locale=en&id=2227692811&ufid=E3E436DE339849CE&file=R2L-ParaStyle-With-L2R-CharStyle.indd

The tweaked codes are also listed below:

Code1:
([\x{0023}-\x{0026}]|[\x{002A}-\x{002C}]|[\x{0030}-\x{0039}]|[\x{003F}-\x{005A}]|[\x{0061}-\x{007A}]|[\x{00A9}])+

Code2:
([!”‘()-./\:;<=>\[\]^_`~\{|\}]+(?=[\x{0023}-\x{0026}]|[\x{002A}-\x{002C}]|[\x{0030}-\x{0039}]|[\x{003F}-\x{005A}]|[\x{0061}-\x{007A}]|[\x{00A9}]))+

Code3:
((?<=[\x{0023}-\x{0026}]|[\x{002A}-\x{002C}]|[\x{0030}-\x{0039}]|[\x{003F}-\x{005A}]|[\x{0061}-\x{007A}]|[\x{00A9}])[!”‘()-./\:;<=>\[\]^_`~\{|\}]+)+

Code4:
([\x{0023}-\x{0026}]|[\x{002A}-\x{002C}]|[\x{0030}-\x{0039}]|[\x{003F}-\x{005A}]|[\x{0061}-\x{007A}]|[\x{00A9}]|[!”‘()-./\:;<=>\[\]^_~\{|\}])([\x{0023}-\x{0026}]|[\x{002A}-\x{002C}]|[\x{0030}-\x{0039}]|[\x{003F}-\x{005A}]|[\x{0061}-\x{007A}]|[\x{00A9}]|[!"'()-./\:;<=>\[\]^_~\{|\}])

Apart from this, you can apply the character style manually on the left overs. Please let me know if you got something better.