How to enter non-Latin text on a latin-based website

Aug 04, '04 10:52:00AM

Contributed by: oeyvind

First you shall need to grab this a useful little freeware by earthlingsoft, UnicodeChecker 1.6. This little Cocoa application will give your Services menu a service menu called Unicode. Now, this is how it works...

First, just type as you would do using whatever input method editors you prefer, i.e.:

繁體中文、简体中文、にほんご、한국말。

Next, select the whole text, and now go to the new Unicode service in the Services menu under the Application menu (so if you are in Safari, it will be Safari -> Services -> Unicdoe) and select the Unicode -> HTML Entities selection. Voila, UnicodeChecker will open and quickly do the conversion and paste it back for you:

繁體中文、简体中
文、にほんご、한
국말。
Don't worry about what it looks like now (extra line breaks were added above to make it more readable here); it will appear as correctly in your blog or forum. I do hope future versions of Safari will be able, like MS Internet Explorer 6, to do this automatically, but for now, this works just fine (at least for me). P.S. This method will work with any Unicode characters, not just CJK.

Note: A copy of this hint, with an additional shot of UnicodeChecker in action, is also available on my website.

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