My statement about "What is Original" was meant as a matter of definition, not of opinion. An elaborately illuminated MS will never contain the first writ of its content (as I pointed out in my second statement), thus it can only lack originality in the sense that it has later been physically meddled with, as the article in the OP suggests, but for which I don't find any corroboration (– not any more than for that magic swastika). If you have any news about that, we'd certainly be interested.
Unicode: either you're interested or you are not. If you are not, that's fine with me; just don't complain.
If you are interested, copy the remaining part of this post to a text file (plain text), save and rename it "UnicodeConverter.html", click, paste your message in Unicode (possibly even including emojis 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>
<script>
document.getElementById('input').addEventListener('input', function() {
const inputText = this.value;
let outputText = ';
for (let i = 0; i < inputText.length; i++) {
const charCode = inputText.codePointAt(i);
if (charCode <= 127) {
outputText += String.fromCodePoint(charCode);
} else {
outputText += '&#x' + charCode.toString(16) + ';';
}
if (charCode > 0xFFFF) {
i++; // Skip the next code unit if it's a surrogate pair
}
}
document.getElementById('output').innerText = outputText;
});
</script>
</body>
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