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unicode-input-toolconverter

v0.3.0

Published

Add-on for selecting Unicode characters by variety of means and converting between various representations

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Keywords

unicodeinputconverter

Readme

unicode-input-toolconverter

Not available againa as an add-on currently, but it is as a web app

A web app and webextensions add-on (Firefox, Chrome) to allow selection of Unicode characters by a variety of means and conversion between various Unicode representations such as HTML/XML entities, numeric character references, etc.

See the Demo

Screenshots

Script Browser Entity/Numeric Character Reference/Escape Converter Preferences Custom DTD (for highlighting entities in the script browser

History

This project had originally found life as a XUL-based Firefox add-on, but XUL support was dropped in Firefox.

Developing

  1. To build: npm run copy && npm run rollup

High priority to-dos

To-dos - medium priority

  1. ONGOING: Get l10n completed (only en, hu-HU, pt-BR, sv-SE were completed)

  2. Cypress tests and coverage

  3. Check protocol_handlers working once Chrome has in stable; e.g., use ext+unicode:find?char=é

  4. Protocol handler: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/protocol_handlers

  5. Compatibility with WebAppFind AtYourCommand so can receive postMessage to prepopulate entity conversion or chart item to browse

  6. After HTML conversion, restore as browser add-on, but as webextensions

    1. Allow adding specific characters or sequences thereof to global system key commands

  7. Conversion to/from 6-digit JavaScript escapes

  8. Create (reactive) Web Components (hyperHTML?) so that besides internal clarity, could reuse as pop-up script browser or character picker

  9. Make in-place context-menu-activated textbox conversions

  10. Improve slow font retrieval; need to do equivalent for other OS' or at least disable for them; https://github.com/foliojs/font-manager, https://github.com/oldj/node-font-list (though see https://github.com/oldj/node-font-list/pull/5)

Lower-priority to-dos

  1. Could display scripts on map (or col. browser) of which are RTL, what languages and scripts herald from that region, etc.
  2. When browsing by script, have option to update script location when one uses next/prev
  3. unicode or utils modules could be moved to own npm package
  4. Utilize column browser also for blocks/categories (also use in filebrowser-enhanced!); could even replace chart
  5. Offer minimal character picker window