htmltext to unicode

[Kee Nethery]

I'm dealing with customers from around the world. I never know for a specific transaction whether they have unicode in their name and what language they are using. 

Is there a font on the Mac that I can just use for all characters? Like maybe Verdana? What about on Windows? 

Is there a generic language of say unicode that I can use for all text I want to display regardless what language the customer speaks and types in?

Thanks, Kee



On Jan 15, 2010, at 4:28 PM, Devin Asay wrote:

> Oops. The hazards of non-linear editing. That last bit should read:
> 
> On Jan 15, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Kee Nethery wrote:
> 
>> -- horrific thought --
>> Am I going to have to manually convert these HTML entities into UFT16 using the numtochar function for each set?
> 
> It's not as terrible as you fear. You have to make a couple of
> educated guesses about the language, but just do this:
> 
> Paste your unicode entities into a field, say, "code" and surround
> them with html tags:
> 
> <font face="Osaka"
> lang="ja">セキュリティー
> 個人情報
> 代金返却方針
> ヘルプ</font>
> 
> Then make another field "final" and do this:
> 
> set the htmltext of fld "final" to fld "code"
> 
> If they don't look quite right, try different fonts in the face
> attribute or other languages in the lang attribute. For example,
> Chinese Simplified is "zh-CN" and Traditional is "zh-TW". Google html
> language codes if you need to try others.
> 
> Now you have real unicode text and you can save it or do whatever you
> need by referring to the unicodeText of fld "final".
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Devin
> 
> Devin Asay
> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
> Brigham Young University
> 
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