I’ve just added some utilities to my website:
- A converter that takes HTML entities to/from the characters they represent. The input can be actual characters (e.g þ), named entity references (þ), or numeric references, decimal or hexadecimal. It also accepts some abbreviations (two back-ticks for “, for example), which I’ll eventually document. Maybe.
- Lorem Ipsum text, with settable font, font size, and line height.
- A list of named HTML entities. (Yes, that’s easy to find, but I wanted a place I could get to easily.)
[Yes, I know all these things are easily available many places. I wanted to be able to get to them without having to think about it, and to be able to fiddle with the details.]
I wrote these for a target user base of one—me—so there’s no particular reason to think that they’ll be useful for anyone else. They’re also in a bit of a raw and unfinished state (in which they’ll stay until I get around to doing something about it). But hey, use them if you like.
All the entity names and unicode descriptions come from the python unicodedata and htmlentitydefs libraries. I love the way python includes stuff like that.
Tags: Computers, django, HTML, Programming, python
