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Not very usable. If you really need to support Unicode on your website, you need to make sure that proper characters are shown. It does generate filler text, bu
by babuskov 14y ago
Not very usable. If you really need to support Unicode on your website, you need to make sure that proper characters are shown. It does generate filler text, but would you know that character set and HTML code page are setup correctly if you don't know which glyphs have to be shown to the user? To give an example, this tool might generate character č, but if wrong code page is used (say ISO_8859-1 instead of UTF-8), you would see something like ł or ć in the browser. And you wouldn't even notice the difference. In some languages, such subtle change in one character can turn text into swearing or just gibberish.
I'd rather see a website with fixed text that shows some often used Unicode characters, The one you can validate (i.e. shows exactly the same on your website). Adding a JPG or PNG picture of what it should look like would be a plus. By "often used" I mean: Latin with accents, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, ... etc. I'm sure a nice "Bacon Ipsum" with one paragraph from each of these would be quite usable. Although, some are written right-to-left, so maybe two different sets would be better: one for RTL and other for LTR languages.
- Shorel 14y agoThe idea is that you should only use UTF-8, otherwise why bother ?