I'm putting an old text into HTML. Sometimes it uses Greek terms and phrases. But there's one character I've never seen before. It seems to be a combination of two other characters: small omicron (ο, ο) + small upsilon with perispomeni (ῦ, ῦ). Here is a PNG illustrating the character, and how it works:
Does anyone know how to put this character into HTML? Can it be found anywhere in Unicode? Has anyone even heard of it?
Thanks.
That's called a ligature. I couldn't find any Unicode character for that one, though there is the Latin version of it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ou_(ligature)
Which mentions the Greek.
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One of my pages is bugged, I get a message from Google saying it's in Indonesian.
Here's a .txt link if you want: http://lc-roleplay.com/account/actions/modelchange/modelchange.txt
Can I somehow disable ALL non-English letters?
No you can't.
There are no such thing as 'English letters'. What you are describing are Roman characters, of which the 52 that appear in English also appear in most other languages.
Furthermore, many English words are written with foreign accents retained, as in café, naïve and façade.
The best you could do would be to run your inputs through an English spellcheck, and reject any input with a given percentage of spelling errors.
You could enforce ASCII encoding, but that would not prevent someone giving you unicode input - it would just mean that it was being improperly decoded (and would look like gibberish)
well on my site for some reason any hebrew text is showing up like
\u05d0\u05d9\u05d9\u05dc \u05d2\u05d5\u05dc\u05df
and so on, anyone know why? and how I can get it showing up properly.
Apparently, the Hebrew text is supposed to be written by some software, possibly JavaScript code, where e.g. \u05d0 within a string literal denotes the Unicode character U+05D0 HEBREW LETTER ALEF “א”. It sounds like such a construct has been mistakenly “escaped” e.g. so that the \ character is preceded by another \ character, which nullifies the meaning and turns the \ to a mere character.
This was a rather abstract answer, though somewhat more concrete than the question. For a more detailed answer, please post some code.
Ok, so I want to have the characters from below in my html page. Seems easy, except I can't find the HTML encoding for them.
Note: I would like to do this without having sized elements, plain ol' text would be fine ^_^.
Cheers.
You can see that they have a unicode number of the selected character - at the bottom of the picture ("U+266A: Eighth Note").
Simply use the last portion in a unicode character entity: ♪ - ♪
If your page is already UTF-8, you can simply paste it in.
Try encoding it as █ - that should do the trick!
In a UTF-8 encoded page, just copy and paste them as-is.
Otherwise, use the number that the dialog gives you for each character, e.g. ♪
However, when working with rather exotic characters, be very wary of font support. See e.g. this question for background: Unicode support in Web standard fonts
This page gives some information about support for the characters you want to use. They seem to be relatively well supported, but a test on Linux and Mac machines won't hurt.
Here is one comprehensive entity reference. If you want to convert symbols into their entity counterparts, I suggest using this converter.
My suggestion is to use hexadecimal reference. ( it's easy dont worry :) )
for example, the first character you have highlighted in red got ascii value of 175, which is AF in hex.
So in short you can encode it using %AF, and so on...
is it clear mate? Let me know if you need further explanation or help about this :)
Edit: my post is meant for url encoding.
I am reading in HTML from a file and displaying it on a web page:
When I look at in the source I see:
The Club’s summer junior programs
but it shows up as:
The Club�s summer junior program
What is happening here and why the � is showing up?
Did you set the proper encoding of the html page?
Read here and here.
I'm guessing you (or someone close to you) is copy/pasting from Word and you are seeing the webby effects of word's [not so] smart quotes. The work around is to set the character encoding to utf-8 or windows-1252.
This is definitely a character encoding issue. It means the page says it has X encoding, but actually it has Y.
A very interesting read by Joel: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html about this topic, definitively a must read if you didn't already read this.
It explains pretty well why these problems occur, how they came to be and how to avoid it :).
May be you have copied text from a work editor, like MS Word, which changes quotes to open quotes and closed quotes characters. When such a text is copied to a text file, it gives these problems.
A simple solution can be to type these quotes again in the text editor.
I would like to print some kind of ASCII "art" on a web page in pre-tags. These graphics use DOS characters to show a map like old maze games did. I didn't find anything in the HTML special character reference. Is there a way to use these characters in HTML ?
Thanks in advance.
With the right Unicode characters, the old character encodings shouldn't make much odds. The tricky bit may be converting existing ASCII art into Unicode - at which point you need to know the original encoding.
The relevant code charts will be listed on the Unicode "symbols" charts page. In particular, I suspect you'll find the box drawing and block elements charts useful.
You'll need to make sure that your page uses a font which contains the right characters, of course...
As an example, you can render this:
┌┐
└┘
With:
<pre>┌┐
└┘</pre>
Not quite a proper box, but getting there...
You can send them in the <pre> tags, although in XHTML you'll need to encapsulate it in <![CDATA[[]> I think. Be careful though, not all encodings render this correctly. For example, a lot of ASCII art designed for DOS code page 430 (US) fails over here in the UK (830). Eastern Europe suffers especially.
I think the best approach here would be to render images.
EDIT: Oh. You could try , but I'm not sure if that would work.