Hi,

I have certain blocks of Spanish text, for example

¿Necesita agregar una impresora o copiadora adicional a su forma
personalizada de orden? Presione aquí.

Don't know if the backwards question mark and the accented "i" came
through, but I was wondering if anyone knew of a site where I could
cut and paste the above and it would spit back the corresponding html
codes (e.g. {) for the appropriate Spanisn symbols.

Thanks for any advice, - Dave

..oO(laredotornado)

>I have certain blocks of Spanish text, for example
>
>¿Necesita agregar una impresora o copiadora adicional a su forma
>personalizada de orden? Presione aquí.
>
>Don't know if the backwards question mark and the accented "i" came
>through, but I was wondering if anyone knew of a site where I could
>cut and paste the above and it would spit back the corresponding html
>codes (e.g. {) for the appropriate Spanisn symbols.

With UTF-8 you could write all those chars literarily without any
character references.

Micha

In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html message <a2cb0dce-8809-4123-bfd6-
4345d2a7a950@s13g2000prd.googlegroups.com>, Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:16:05,
laredotornado <laredotornado@zipmail.com> posted:

>I have certain blocks of Spanish text, for example
>
>¿Necesita agregar una impresora o copiadora adicional a su forma
>personalizada de orden? Presione aquí.
>
>Don't know if the backwards question mark and the accented "i" came
>through, but I was wondering if anyone knew of a site where I could
>cut and paste the above and it would spit back the corresponding html
>codes (e.g. {) for the appropriate Spanisn symbols.

I see the inverted question mark, but no accents.

One could easily be written, e.g. by yourself. A TEXTAREA for input, a
BUTTON, a TEXTAREA for output, and a series of RegExps, acting on the
content of the first area and writing to the second.

DEMO : ake a copy of my <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/js-
quick.htm>; put ¿Que? in F.X0, F.X1.value = F.X0.value.replace(/¿/g,
"{") in the textarea, press Eval, and read F.X1. Then copy F.X1
to the textarea, press HTML, and observe that it's not { that you
need (it's ¿).

It's a good idea to read the newsgroup c.l.j and its FAQ. See below.

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Scripsit Michael Fesser:

> .oO(laredotornado)
>
>> I have certain blocks of Spanish text, for example
>>
>> ¿Necesita agregar una impresora o copiadora adicional a su forma
>> personalizada de orden? Presione aquí.
>>
>> Don't know if the backwards question mark and the accented "i" came
>> through, but I was wondering if anyone knew of a site where I could
>> cut and paste the above and it would spit back the corresponding html
>> codes (e.g. {) for the appropriate Spanisn symbols.
>
> With UTF-8 you could write all those chars literarily without any
> character references.

And with iso-8859-1, the common default (more or less), if you don't
mind having to do something special with curly quotation marks.

And you can load a Spanish keyboard setting, or the US International
keyboard setting, or (best of all) the Finnish multinational keyboard
setting, in order to be able to type the characters conveniently (e.g.,
using the AltGr key).

Of course, many of the common resources for iso-8859-1 contains the
references you can use, if that's really what you want. Even the HTML
specifications have them.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

laredotornado wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have certain blocks of Spanish text, for example
>
> ¿Necesita agregar una impresora o copiadora adicional a su forma
> personalizada de orden? Presione aquí.
>
> Don't know if the backwards question mark and the accented "i" came
> through, but I was wondering if anyone knew of a site where I could
> cut and paste the above and it would spit back the corresponding html
> codes (e.g. {) for the appropriate Spanisn symbols.
>
> Thanks for any advice, - Dave

Few years ago I wrote TEDU (freeware). Try it.
http://www.practisoft.cz/?download+en

--
Petr Vileta, Czech republic
(My server rejects all messages from Yahoo and Hotmail. Send me your
mail from another non-spammer site please.)

Please reply to <petr AT practisoft DOT cz>

Dr J R Stockton wrote:
> One could easily be written, e.g. by yourself. A TEXTAREA for input,
> a BUTTON, a TEXTAREA for output, and a series of RegExps, acting on
> the content of the first area and writing to the second.

If you are going to go that route, write it in Perl and take advantage
of the HTML::Entities module. No need to write all those regexen.

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Dr J R Stockton wrote:

>> Presione aquí.
>
> I see the inverted question mark, but no accents.

El acento está aquí.
^

--
http://niwo.mnsys.org/saved/~flavell/charset/

On Apr 16, 3:03am, Scott Bryce <sbr...@scottbryce.com> wrote:
> Dr J R Stockton wrote:
>
> > One could easily be written, e.g. by yourself. A TEXTAREA for input,
> > a BUTTON, a TEXTAREA for output, and a series of RegExps, acting on
> > the content of the first area and writing to the second.
>
> If you are going to go that route, write it in Perl and take advantage
> of the HTML::Entities module. No need to write all those regexen.

Then do it yourself <g> .

IMHO, it's much easier to do it in JavaScript, the natural language
for the OP's request of a "site", than it would be to learn Perl. And
it turns out that there's no need to write RegExps as such, if one
provides an input area for the user to define the conversions.

The following includes self-test :

<form class=TRY action="#">
<textarea name=T0 cols=69 rows=4>
Replace first field by second field
¿ &amp;#191; Comment follows second TAB
q Q Paste new content into this box
</textarea>
<textarea name=T1 cols=69 rows=4>
Text input
¿que?</textarea>
<br><input type=button value="->" onClick="TextConv(this.form)"><br>
<textarea name=T2 cols=69 rows=4></textarea>
</form>


function TextConv(F) { var St, XX, J
XX = F.T0.value.split(/[\r\n]+/)
St = F.T1.value
for (J=0 ; J<XX.length ; J++) {
XX[J] = XX[J].split("\t")
if (XX[J].length==1) XX[J][1] = ""
XX[J][0] = new RegExp(XX[J][0], "g") }
for (J=0 ; J<XX.length ; J++) St = St.replace(XX[J][0], XX[J][1])
F.T2.value = St }


I did it in my js-misc1.htm#TS; but I'll not be leaving it there if
signs of excessive use appear - take a COPY. RSVP if bugs are found;
tested in IE7 FF2 Op9 Sf3. FF2 has a mini-bug : the testareas appear
to be 5 rows.


BTW, my newsreader did in fact show the accented í, about one pixel
different from a normal one at normal size, but good at 20 pt.

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