Nicknames and Unicode 
September 20th, 2007, 9:31 am by lig
A good friend of mine on the IRC channels recently gave me a special nickname - U+0E5B. What the heck is that you say? well it is the unicode character for "THAI CHARACTER KHOMUT"... I can still feel your puzzlement. Here is what it looks like:
(image taken from here)
Rather beautiful isn't it. 
Anyway when I was given this name as a nickname I was curious what it looked like (this was before I got to see the image provided above) but I hadn't a clue how to convert the unicode codepoint to a character I could see on a page (yes i am unicode ignorant in oh so many ways).
Do some investigating and learn to change the "U+" to "&#" add a "x" to mark it as a hex and add a semicolan at the end and walla... the HTML entity. Does this work for every unicode codepoint - no clue - but it did for the ones I played with.
My page to see what it looked like (with an extra unicode character for fun):
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
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<html>
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<head>
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
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</meta></head>
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<body>
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<h1>
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๛ ☠
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</h1>
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</body>
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</html>
