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[request] Write-tab character entity plugin?
I’ve looked around a bit, but haven’t been able to find:
An admin-side plugin that would put some kind of a shortcut menu or something to insert a character entity into the body field. Like if I’m writing along and I need a ñ for example, instead of having to go look it up I could just open up a menu and select the right character to insert it.
Does anything like this exist? Would it be useful for others?
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Re: [request] Write-tab character entity plugin?
if you’re a Snow Leoparder, you can define abbreviations for commonly used text strings.
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Yay Mac! Unfortunately though, I’d like this feature for my clients, most of whom are on PC, using some terrible old browser…
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Re: [request] Write-tab character entity plugin?
nabrown78 wrote:
An admin-side plugin that would put some kind of a shortcut menu or something to insert a character entity into the body field.
Any reason? The content is UTF-8 (unicode). No need for entities.
If the client can’t output the char directly by keyboard (nor remember the code), any OS’ char/translator/word-predict/mapper can do it. Yay Windows 7.
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Re: [request] Write-tab character entity plugin?
So wait, maybe I’m totally baked. I mean, Textpattern encodes quotes properly for a reason though, right? If I want to throw in say, an n with a tilde over it – I can’t just paste it on in there if I want it to display correctly for everyone, right? I need to use an entity. Or so I thought…
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Re: [request] Write-tab character entity plugin?
nabrown78 wrote:
I can’t just paste it on in there if I want it to display correctly for everyone, right? I need to use an entity. Or so I thought…
You need only use entities if you use charset that doesn’t hold that char. But UTF-8 holds every unicode char.
nabrown78 wrote:
I mean, Textpattern encodes quotes properly for a reason though, right?
No, quotes are encoded because they are changed to match typography. Straight quotes are only used in code, not in text.
Only thing you must encode are <, >, ", & by (X)HTML markup specs, ‘cause those are used to generate markup tags. And Textile does that for you.
Last edited by Gocom (2009-11-11 03:34:02)
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Re: [request] Write-tab character entity plugin?
Huh, okay thanks. So have you ever seen a site with some goofy characters thrown in, like question marks in little diamonds, for example – I’ve even seen it occasionally on nytimes.com or a big site like that. Do you know what is happening there?
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Re: [request] Write-tab character entity plugin?
nabrown78 wrote:
Huh, okay thanks. So have you ever seen a site with some goofy characters thrown in, like question marks in little diamonds, for example – I’ve even seen it occasionally on nytimes.com or a big site like that. Do you know what is happening there?
Only if there is charset gone wrong or I don’t have support for that used language (like japanese).
But in general, everything works fine. Like wikipedia, in every language.
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