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

To add foreign characters to your lens Text/Write Module, you need to enter your characters as HTML 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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Foreign Language Online Dictionaries and Free Translation links
There are 6,800 known languages spoken in the 200 countries of the world. 2,261 have writing systems (the others are only spoken) and about 300 are represented by on-line dictionaries as of May 11, 2004. This website has the widest and deepest set of dictionaries, grammars, and other language resources on the web.
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Turkish - English Dictionary 2,036,876+ Words
Google Translate
I use Google translate all the time to quickly get the meaning of sentences in a foreign language.

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Reader Feedback

  • itd_24 Sep 13, 2011 @ 12:42 am | delete
    Thanks for the info, just what I needed :)
  • 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?
  • tealmermaid Feb 21, 2011 @ 7:50 pm | delete
    Good lens idea. I was looking for something like this!
  • gobbleupinfo 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.
  • 123ysaolivia 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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