OED Unicode

By Justin Kerk Last update Aug 26, 2009 — Installed 538 times.


Script Summary: Converts GIFs for special characters in OED Online and AskOxford.com to Unicode text

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The Oxford English Dictionary's OED Online (subscribers only) and AskOxford.com use small images to display all of the special characters used in entries for pronunciation, Greek letters, etc. Being the Unicode fan that I am, this offended my sensibilities, so I wrote a script to convert these images into proper Unicode text, which can then be resized, printed nicely, searched for with Google, copied and pasted into documents, etc. See the homepage and the source code for further details.