I wrote a bookmarklet called KeyU8 a few month back. The idea to be able to display UTF-8 characters and copy them to the clipboard in order to us them in applications such as twitter. And it actually worked for a while. But then came the Adobe flash upgrade.
The copy to clipboard function is not avaible in most of the popular browser so I was using a clever technique from Jeffothy’s Keyings: http://www.jeffothy.com/weblog/clipboard-copy/. This basically uses a flash movie and SWFObject to do the copy to clipboard bit.
The problem with the new flash player (since version 10) is that it doesn’t allow you to run function in a flash movie is it hasn’t been triggered by the flash movie it self. And guess what, that wasn’t the case.
I bumped into a new solution today, using the same method but having the flash movie displayed on top of the actual button. Some when the user click the button it actually click the flash and can trigger anything you want in it. Sweet!
So i’ve updated my KeyU8 with this stuff and here it is: KeyU8 Reloaded
Drag this link to your bookmarks and everything should work. To copy a symbol just click on it, then select the textarea where you want to paste it and paste it.
There is a slight delay between the opening of the bookmarklet and the moment when you can click a symbol but I’ll look into it.
ZeroClipboard, the library used here is actualy very simple and provide all the functions you might want to set up your stuff.
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