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Thread #173516 Message #4207806
Posted By: GUEST,Grishka
02-Sep-24 - 05:19 AM
Thread Name: Tech: obscure characters app native to Win10+
Subject: RE: Tech: obscure characters app native to Win10+
Dave, "why they exist" is not difficult to understand. The actual question is: why do browsers combine them correctly when entered via UTF-8 but fail to combine them when entered as entities, such as ��. The answer, I guess, is simply that emojis and entities come from different millennia.
I asked ChatGPT to write a converter for me. The first version had the same error as MrRed's. After my complaint "It should work for codepoints as well", this is what it came up with – just copy to a text file and save it as "GrishkaConverter.html"; feel free to add conversion of < to < etc.:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <title>Grishka's Text to HTML Code Converter</title> <style> body { font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 20px; } #output { white-space: pre-wrap; border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px; margin-top: 10px; } </style> </head> <body> <h1>Grishka's Text to HTML Code Converter</h1> <textarea id="input" rows="10" cols="50" placeholder="Paste your text here..."></textarea> <div id="output"></div>