Converting from Japanese characters to HTML entities

[Olskum]

Hi there

Anyone knows of a software/method with which I can copy japanese characters into and get the equiviliant html entities.

Have to use HTML entities in a backend system and then it renderes as Japanese characters in the browser.

SE

[bill]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld Olskum.

What encoding are you using? I remember that there were some Unicode tables somewhere. I do know of an online form that would translate Unicode into proper Japanese...sounds like you want to do that in reverse.

Why can't you just copy the text as-is?

[HarryM]

I know how to do something like this for Chinese characters. I use an NJStar word processor to create the Chinese text and then convert it to an appropriate encoding using NJStar Communicator. There is an NJStar Japanese wp and NJStar Communicator handles Japanese EUC-JIS, Shift-JIS, New-JIS, and UTF-8 so the procedure should be the same for Japanese. Free trial NJStar versions are available.

However I have only done this with static pages, so there may be other issues if a database is used. It would be worth looking at the threads in the Asia & Pacific region forum.

I think MS Word can produce Asian text in UTF-8 format (although I haven't tried this). But it might be better to use a specific Japanese encoding rather than UTF-8.