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Pillar of the Community
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Hi, I'm curious how I might correctly embed foreign alphabets that otherwise show OK on web pages. In the context of coins, it would be very useful to be able to include the alphabets used for Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Cyrillic, Greek, Polish, even Icelandic. I know that Chinese will be problematic, but what about the phonetic alphabets? I've tried many times, but perhaps there's a trick?  Thanks!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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could you copy & paste it from Google or another translating website?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
671 Posts |
Copy and pasting Arabic does not work, as evident in my last post.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Here's what this site does to the Cyrillic for "Rubles" #1088;#1091;#1073;#1083;#1077;#1081; trying a trick, results in: #1088;#1091;#1073;#1083;#1077;#1081; this looked OK in preview mode, darn! #1088;#1091;#1073;#1083;#1077;#1081; |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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what about using the "paint" program and writing what you want with the pencil tool then saving it as a jpg file and upload it as a picture?
Just thinking out loud...
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Pillar of the Community
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Oh yeah...sure, but that's a pain, isn't it? LOL. Like I want to draw Cyrillic or Icelandic, hehe I just want to type here....  OK, another try: [quote Grrrr!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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you didn't say you wanted an EASY way to do it....  I'm fresh out of ideas.... |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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LOL...I'll wait for the forum techs to respond. It would be great for our intl. collectors to just type words in those alphabets. But yeah--I could always do this, but it's more work than I care for:  |
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We'd need to change the encoding used for the site and that could have some effect on the current users...
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Pillar of the Community
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how'd you do that? looks like it would take some time with the fancy script and the shadows and all....
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Bryan,
It was a quick copy and paste into Photoshop, add a drop shadow for effect.
Times font, not too hard--but I'd rather type, oh well...
I should add that there are web-based apps to convert text into graphics which might suffice. However, the intent of those programs is often to circumvent proper content controls on forums and blogs. That's not my intention at all, but to correctly represent wording found on coins.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It's a pain, certainly Kurt. Even simple symbols such as the cent, pound, or accented letters show up as garbage to my screen.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Kurt, I wouldn't have the slightest idea! I'm lucky to get just "plain old inglish"! I hope you find what you are looking for, as it would make a lot of peole happy, to find out what all "squiggly lines mean"! But again, if one has the software to use with a keyboard that is able to type in one iof those alphabets, it woulD be easy. Just type what you see on the coin. You don't have to know what it means, or says. you should have some inkling of what it means, being aworld coin collector. I though I had gotten all the "boo-boo's" on the first proof-read!
Dick
Edited by livingdinasaur
12/12/2008 3:23 pm
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United States
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From my experience you need two things.
First, ensure that the pages are encoded as Unicode (UTF-8).
Second, ensure that the complete fonts that include the target alphabet are loaded onto the user's system. The problem is that not all fonts include all alphabets by default (use the Character Map, select a font and browse to see what I mean). There is really no control over this other than posting that they may need to install some fonts to properly render the page.
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I know you can get some non-English characters on the forum, as it is right now... maridvnvm has some Greek letters in this post. I wish I knew how he did that. I've tried Greek letters before... and failed. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Posted 12/11/2008 9:12 pm
