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The WebFrog widget: Zap foreign language special characters into HTML entities

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

*Edit 5/16/07: Seems Kelibo is out of business. You can download the Webfrog widget here.

WebFrog is an amazing widget, available for Mac OS (with Dashboard) and Windows (with Yahoo! Widget Engine, free).

Are certain characters frogging up your text? Wipe them out with Kelibo WebFrog.

Kelibo WebFrog cleans and encodes frogs from your text making it Web-ready or Unicode text. Convert pesky special characters like é, Ä, and ñ into Dec, Hex, or HTML Entity Name format or convert entities back into Unicode text.

I often work on international projects where the text is littered with umlauts, accents and tildes. Instead of doing multiple Finds and Replaces, I copy the text into WebFrog, hit the Defrog button and WebFrog puts all the HTML entities in for me. It’s very convenient.

Available for download at Apple.com. Published by Kelibo.