Translating foreign characters to HTML code

[gregf@kcls.org]

Is there a way or a program (for windows) that can translate foreign
characters inot the proper html code? I have a word document with many
different characters and I really don't want to spend all the time
editing it with all the html code ie "&#347ci&#2 61". Certainly someone
must have a program that can do this automatically.

[David Dorward]

Re: Translating foreign characters to HTML code

gregf@kcls.org wrote:
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> Is there a way or a program (for windows) that can translate foreign
> characters inot the proper html code? I have a word document with many
> different characters and I really don't want to spend all the time
> editing it with all the html code ie "&#347ci&#2 61". Certainly someone
> must have a program that can do this automatically.[/color]

Just save it with a UTF-8 character encoding. Then you don't need to specify
UTF-8 characters with character references.

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[Lachlan Hunt]

Re: Translating foreign characters to HTML code

gregf@kcls.org wrote:[color=blue]
> Is there a way or a program (for windows) that can translate foreign
> characters inot the proper html code? I have a word document with many
> different characters and I really don't want to spend all the time
> editing it with all the html code ie "&#347ci&#2 61". Certainly someone
> must have a program that can do this automatically.[/color]

You need to learn Unicode.

http://lachy.id.au/log/2004/12/guide-to-unicode-part-1

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[Harlan Messinger]

Re: Translating foreign characters to HTML code

gregf@kcls.org wrote:[color=blue]
> Is there a way or a program (for windows) that can translate foreign
> characters inot the proper html code? I have a word document with many
> different characters and I really don't want to spend all the time
> editing it with all the html code ie "&#347ci&#2 61".[/color]

That's fine, because it wouldn't work anyway. You forgot the semicolons.

[David Håsäther]

Re: Translating foreign characters to HTML code

Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.rem ovethis@comcast .net> wrote:
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> gregf@kcls.org wrote:[color=green]
>> Is there a way or a program (for windows) that can translate
>> foreign characters inot the proper html code? I have a word
>> document with many different characters and I really don't want
>> to spend all the time editing it with all the html code ie
>> "&#347ci&#2 61".[/color]
>
> That's fine, because it wouldn't work anyway. You forgot the
> semicolons.[/color]

It _will_ work (for HTML, not XHTML) since the parsing for the numeric
character reference will end with the first non-digit, in this case
"c".

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David Håsäther

[Alan J. Flavell]

Re: Translating foreign characters to HTML code

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, David Håsäther wrote:

[ "&#347ci&#2 61". ]
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> It _will_ work (for HTML, not XHTML) since the parsing for the numeric
> character reference will end with the first non-digit, in this case
> "c".[/color]

No. Some client agents may choose that fixup, but I challenge you to
produce any authoritative specification which requires it.

[David Håsäther]

Re: Translating foreign characters to HTML code

Alan J. Flavell <flavell@ph.gla .ac.uk> wrote:
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> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, David Håsäther wrote:
>
> [ "&#347ci&#2 61". ]
>[color=green]
>> It _will_ work (for HTML, not XHTML) since the parsing for the
>> numeric character reference will end with the first non-digit, in
>> this case "c".[/color]
>
> No. Some client agents may choose that fixup, but I challenge you
> to produce any authoritative specification which requires it.[/color]

The SGML Handbook (353:3) says (emphasis mine)

| The refc or RE can be omitted only if the reference is _not followed
| by a character that could occur in the reference_, or by a character
| that could be interpreted as the omitted reference end.

Looking at the production for a numeric character reference[62.2] (this
production was introduced in the Web SGML Adaptations TC) we see that
after CRO it's followed by "character number" (which is one or more
digit), i.e., nothing other than digits can occur in a numeric
character reference, and therefore REFC can be omitted.

Try it in nsgmls too.

[62.2] numeric character reference =
cro, character number, reference end

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David Håsäther

[Alan J. Flavell]

Re: Translating foreign characters to HTML code

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, David Håsäther wrote:
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> Alan J. Flavell <flavell@ph.gla .ac.uk> wrote:
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> > On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, David Håsäther wrote:
> >
> > [ "&#347ci&#2 61". ]
> >[color=darkred]
> >> It _will_ work (for HTML, not XHTML) since the parsing for the
> >> numeric character reference will end with the first non-digit, in
> >> this case "c".[/color]
> >
> > No. Some client agents may choose that fixup, but I challenge you
> > to produce any authoritative specification which requires it.[/color]
>
> The SGML Handbook (353:3) says (emphasis mine)[/color]

[...]

OK, I have to admit that this SGML detail was not known to me, and it
appears you are correct about that.

However, the HTML specification (parts displayed in black)
does not include this option - see

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#h-5.3

Indeed there is a note (in green) stating:

Note. In SGML, it is possible to eliminate the final ";" after a
character reference in some cases (e.g., at a line break or
immediately before a tag). In other circumstances it may not be
eliminated (e.g., in the middle of a word). We strongly suggest using
the ";" in all cases to avoid problems with user agents that require
this character to be present.

And all of their recipes and examples include the terminating
semicolon.

So although I concede that you may be technically correct on the SGML
front, I think it's overstating the case to claim that it's true for
HTML.

(Modulo the usual arguments about "the HTML specification purports to
exclude some features of SGML which SGML does not permit to be
excluded.)

thanks.

[dwight.stegall@gmail.com]

Re: Translating foreign characters to HTML code

Try this acii converter.

http://dwight.tendirect.com/hhelper/snippets/asciiconverter.htm