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This page provides links to small web-page utilities I have written. These are all XHTML pages using JavaScript or PHP, so there's no risk of viruses.
Convert latitude and longitude figures to decimal format, or create Flickr tags from your data.
This is a PHP page.
Look up characters, character blocks, paste in and discover unknown characters, store your own info about characters, search on character names, do hex/dec/ncr conversions, highlight character types, etc. etc. Check out the user guide for instructions and new features, and have fun!
Supports Unicode 5.0.0 and written with Web Standards to work on a variety of browsers. (this is still work in progress).
Initially downloads about 1Mb of Unicode data, so you should use a fast connection. Once it's cached you're ok.
Pickers allow you to quickly create phrases in a script by clicking on Unicode characters arranged in a way that aids their identification. The phrase appears at the bottom of the screen and you can easily cut and paste the result into your own document. They're written in XHTML with a small amount of JavaScript.
Pickers are likely to be most useful if you don't know a script well enough to use the native keyboard. The arrangement of characters also makes it much more useable than a regular character map utility, and they may include characters from more than one block. New pickers are being added from time to time. Most pickers are also available in French. Currently available pickers include:
Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Latin, Malayalam, Thai, Tamil, Tifinagh
This page helps you convert between characters, Unicode code point numbers, UTF-8 and UTF-16 code units in hex, and Numeric Character References (hex and decimal). Just add one type of data, press tab, and see all the corresponding values.
This page allows you to detect whether a UTF-8 encoded file on the Web begins with a UTF-8 signature or not.
Want to find the subtag for language, region, script, etc? Or find out what that tag means? Or get a list of all currently available tags? You could look in the text file on the IANA site, but this is more user friendly.
This Web-based tool searches the most-up-to-date version of the registry.
When you hit the Show Result botton you are presented with a list of subtags and their descriptions. If you click on those, you'll reveal additional information from the registry about each entry.
Are you learning a language? This web app allows you to test yourself on your own vocabulary, dialogues, kanji characters, whatever. You can test in both directions, specify what information to display, and randomise the list before testing. You can also print lists for testing yourself when you don't have access to the Web.
For instructions, see the help file.
Last update 2007-12-29 10:43 GMT
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