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How to enter non-Latin text on a latin-based website
This is a good tip -- I've been using a different application that provides a similar unicode-->HTML entity conversion service for years. Unfortunately, you have to be careful; some scripts or software know about HTML entities and try to display the text exactly as the user entered (usually using an entity for the & character), which results in the unicode string appearing as raw code instead of the intended character. For example, in this comment system if you choose "Plain Old Text" instead of "HTML Formatted", and type あ, you'll get exactly that text (it converts the & to an HTML entity) instead of あ. If the software is also smart enough to do the conversion itself, you can just type unicode straight into it, but some aren't, making it essentially impossible to enter non-Latin text. Whether this is by design or an incorrect assumption about what people want to be typing, the result is the same, so you might want to test to make sure you're not typing gobldygook into a forum or whatever before you do a large post. |
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