Funny stuff.  The Asian characters below are what I get when I try dragging links from Firefox into Open Office (where they look normal) then into Word Press.  And I even tried saving as a Word document then using the “Paste from Word” button in Word Press.

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Update: The Asian characters show up in the WYSIWYG Word Press editor, but, when published, show up as mostly question marks.  Either I’m doing something wrong, or Word Press or Open Office (or both) need a fix.  This is all on a iMac BTW.

Chromium

Slashdot has word of Chromium, a port of the Google Chrome browser for Linux and Mac from Codeweavers.

I’m using it on my Mac as I type this post.  Chromium let me insert images via the “Add media” feature in WordPress, which is more than what Firefox and Safari let me do the other day (i.e., Firefox and Safari were not allowing the inserting of images.  I had to use the Opera browser for this to work.)

Chromium appears to be using X11 and is not Mac native, yet.  A Q and A from the Codeweavers site:

Q. Are there native Linux and Mac versions of Chromium available?

A. Not yet. Google has announced plans to support native Mac and Linux versions of Chromium, but they have yet to be released. CrossOver Chromium, however, runs the Windows version of Chromium natively on both Mac and Linux.

It doesn’t appear to be rock solid either.  It won’t copy URLs out of the address bar for me; when clicking on the top bar of Chromium from another window, the whole window wants to move instead of just selecting Chromium; and it will crash every time I open a new tab, try clicking in the unusable search box, then try typing and going anywhere in the address bar.  And this all happened when I was in the process of typing this post.  If I may be so brash as to use an Internet cliche: epic fail.

But hey, at least it’s a start, right?