InDesign GREP of the Month: \x (Unicode)
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Target any range of characters:
Hebrew or Hirigana, Cherokee or currency, Devanagari or dingbats.
GREP is an excellent tool for finding characters in certain Unicode ranges and applying a character style to them. I’ve used this method to apply a phonetic font to phonetic characters and an Arabic font to Arabic script. To accomplish this, you need to know InDesign’s notation for Unicode characters and the limits of, in this case, the phonetic and Arabic Unicode ranges.
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