unicode-input-toolconverter

Incomplete! (Still restoring from old browser add-on.)

A web app and webextensions add-on (Firefox, Chrome) to allow selection of Unicode characters by a variety of means and conversion between various Unicode representations such as HTML/XML entities, numeric character references, etc.

See the Demo

Screenshots

History

This project had originally found life as a XUL-based Firefox add-on, but XUL support was dropped in Firefox.

High priority to-dos (toward restoring functionality)

1. Move out description code in UnicodeConverter.js to charrefunicodeDb or other database-aware utility.
2. Restore starting with unicodecharref.js and then charrefConverters.js.
   1. Split up unicodecharref.js
3. Improve slow font retrieval so can reenable; need to do equivalent for other OS' or at least disable for them

To-dos - medium priority

1. ONGOING: Get l10n completed (only en-US, hu-HU, pt-BR, sv-SE were completed)

2. Cypress tests and coverage (esp. once this may be fixed: cypress-io/cypress#16467)

3. Protocol handler: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/protocol_handlers

4. Compatibility with WebAppFind AtYourCommand so can receive postMessage to prepopulate entity conversion or chart item to browse

5. After HTML conversion, restore as browser add-on, but as webextensions

   1. Allow adding specific characters or sequences thereof to global system key commands

6. Conversion to/from 6-digit JavaScript escapes

7. Create (reactive) Web Components (hyperHTML?) so that besides internal clarity, could reuse as pop-up script browser or character picker

8. Make in-place context-menu-activated textbox conversions

Lower-priority to-dos

1. Could display scripts on map (or col. browser) of which are RTL, what languages and scripts herald from that region, etc.
2. When browsing by script, have option to update script location when one uses next/prev
3. unicode or utils modules could be moved to own npm package
4. Utilize column browser also for blocks/categories (also use in filebrowser-enhanced!); could even replace chart
5. Offer minimal character picker window