Using foreign characters on Squidoo
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How to use foreign characters on your Squidoo lenses
If you are creating a lens about languages, a multilingual lens or just using some foreign phrases, then this lens teaches you how to put foreign characters on your lens.
I have used Turkish examples in this lens because I am designing websites in Turkey. The principle applies to all languages that can be represented with the UTF-8 character set.
My first lens (Now You're Talking Turkey) needed foreign characters for a couple of phrases. [The section that used these phrases grew and became my lens: Getting a men's haircut in Turkey].
This lens is a result of my experimentation and experience in learning how to enter foreign characters on Squidoo.
I have found my own instructions in this lens helpful when I have been creating other lenses like my lens on Living in Turkey : Housing
Note: This lens about how to use foreign characters on your Squidoo lenses may become obsolete with multi-lingual development of Squidoo.
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“...you need to enter your foreign characters as HTML codes...”
How to enter Foreign Characters and Symbols in Text/Write Modules:
How to use the codes
For example to enter this Turkish phrase "elinize sağlık" meaning "health to your hands", you need to type ğ for ğ and ı for ı.
If you just type the foreign characters from your keyboard, only certain characters may work. For example typing the Turkish work "işçilik" meaning "workmanship" on a Turkish keyboard may give the unexpected result of "i%u015Fçilik". Here the "ç" works, but the "ş" does not. Likewise, care should be taken when copying and pasting in text containing foreign characters.
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itd_24 Sep 13, 2011 @ 12:42 am | delete
- Thanks for the info, just what I needed :)
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ChrisDay
Mar 11, 2011 @ 2:21 am | delete
- Great lens thanks - while I do have some foreign language on my lenses, I haven't yet needed different symbols. Who knows when the need will arise though?
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tealmermaid
Feb 21, 2011 @ 7:50 pm | delete
- Good lens idea. I was looking for something like this!
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Jan 9, 2011 @ 8:09 pm | delete
- When I hit this lens, I felt as though I had found a "Treasure Chest" of Squidoo mark-ups. Thank you.
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Dec 8, 2010 @ 10:47 pm | delete
- I am still having problem on understanding the main point in your lens. What does really mean about on foreign characters?
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