A multi-lingual project I’m currently working on requires a lot of converting foreign language characters into their HTML entities. After half an hour of doing this manually, I got fed up and created this little utility to do it automatically. Hopefully it comes in handy for someone else too.
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2 Comments to “ASCII to HTML Translator”
I’m not sure why your project isn’t using Unicode, as everybody else’s is. The idea that some characters are “foreign language” and require “converting” is outdated and American.
Joe: Unfortunately, I became involved in the project 2/3rds of the way through, and these decisions aren’t always up to me. Do you have any good resource links on the use of Unicode for websites that I can use to make a case?