See "LINKS/ OTHER RESOURCES" below for complete character lists.

Selected character reference:

ISO 8859-1
	Symbol / Rendering	Description	In HTML, type this:	...or this:
 		no-break space/ non-breaking space	 	 
¢	¢	Cent sign	¢	¢
£	£	Pound sterling	£
¤	¤	General currency sign	¤
¥	¥	Yen sign	¥	¥
¦	¦	Broken vertical bar
Note that all ISO-8859-1 characters are included in ANSI / Windows-1252. Use the following header tag in HTML documents to specify that the document was saved/encoded using the Microsoft Windows character set: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> The 27 extra characters provided by Windows 1252 (ANSI) that are not available in ISO-8859-1 include: &euro [€] (Euro sign) &sbquo [‚] (sb quote) &fnof [ƒ] ('function of ...' [f(x)] or 'finite part integral') &bdquo [„] &bull; [•] &hellip; […] (horizontal ellipsis,ellipses) "unbreakable ellipsis" … [not to be confused with "ellipses", the flattened circle shape.]
UNICODE
	Symbol / Rendering	Description	In HTML, type this:	...or this: (HTML Entity, decimal)	...or this: (HTML Entity, hex)	Official
&bull;	•	bullet	&bull;	&#8226;
&ne;	≠	(value) ... does not equal ... (value)	&ne;	&#8800;	&#x2260;	NOT EQUAL TO (U+2260)
&asymp;	≈	... equals approximately... ... is almost equal to ...	&asymp; (from "asymptote")	&#8773;	view more like this
"approximately equal to": alternatives to the 'wiggily equals' include: { ~ } or { = (approx) } Q: Why 'asymptote'? A: Because, presumedly, the ~ symbol was often used to indicate that one function is asymptotic to another, and the ~ and ≈ symbols were often used interchangeably. One might, for example, write f(x)~ g(x) if the ratio of f(x) and g(x) approach 1 as x -> infinity. In other words, two values which ALMOST meet or are ALMOST the same... [s]
&there4;	∴	(something-something) ... therefore ... (something)
&frasl;	⁄	solidus ("Fraction Slash") Compare to "forward slash" (&#47;): /	HTML Entity (decimal) &#8260; HTML Entity (hex) &#x2044;		'FRACTION SLASH' (U+2044) How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +2044
&#x2044;	⁄	solidus ("Fraction Slash")	HTML Entity (named) &frasl;		see also: "division slash"; "solidus"
	F8; %29F8;	BIG SOLIDUS 29F8

(see also this 1998 proposal and the then-current reference tables)

"therefore" symbol ∴ none ∴ ∴

"varies with / similar to" ∼ none ∼ ∼

"almost equal to" ≈ none ≈ ≈

"not equal to" ≠ none ≠ ≠

"equivalent to" ≡ none ≡ ≡

"less-than or equal to" &le none ≤ &le

"greater-than/equal to" ≥ none ≥ ≥

Note that you must actually save the file (.txt, .html) using the proper encoding; the HTML "Content-Type" tag will not change
the encoding of a .html file (for example) saved as ANSI* to (for example) a document with Unicode encoding.
But you can use the decimal numbers (e.g. in an ascii document and specify the UTF-8 encoding (see STAR example, below).

*ANSI character set / ANSI encoding — The ANSI-standard character set defines 256 characters. The first 128 are ASCII, and the second 128 contain math and foreign language symbols, which are different than those on the PC.

Dumb tricks with Unicode:
Putting a star in your web page title:
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>&#9733; I'm a star baby!&#9733;</title>

Result (if page uses UTF-8/Unicode)
★I'm a star baby!★

Codes in URLs: (URIs)
%E5%A4%A7%E9%98%AA%E5%B8%82 %3F %3D %3C %3F

Codes to be passed to CGI sripts in URIs
sample:

 to send '&' or ' = ' as data to the CGI you must encode them as %2526 and %253D, respectively. 
 Note that when = is used between a field name and its value 
 it does not need to be encoded, and when & is used as the first character of a character entity 
 (such as < ) it does not need to be encoded. 
 Also note that field/value pairs are delimited by & (the character entity for &).
 For example:
 <form method="post" action="ROFM.acgi?_action=Add&amp;...&amp;Subject=OneAmpersandInQuotes&quot;%2526&quot;"> 

http://ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

HTML Character Set

selected examples, based on [ISO-8859-1]

* hexadecimal numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F {conversion}

Other Unicode (Experimental\Extended):

Browser / Encoding Render Check:
The following table is used to see if the character code
INDICATED IN THE FIRST COLUMN renders correctly in the second column.
For example, you should see the character for em dash in the center column in the first
two rows.
(Note: The character set specified for this html page is " http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" .)

Other links:

• ANSI characters not present in ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1)
• Chinese Character Code Table
  
• Required characters for writing Irish Gaelic
• Character Mnemonics & Character Sets - RFC 1345 (1992)
  

LINKS/ OTHER RESOURCES:

ASCII - ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) Table with HTML Entity Names
• Martin Ramsch's "ISO 8859-1 Table" [http://www.ramsch.org/martin/uni/fmi-hp/iso8859-1.html]
• http://www.unicode.org/unicode.css
• Character Encoding Options

ASCII-EBCDIC Character Set
The HTML Document Character Set

About the use of the em dash and the en dash (and similar characters)

click here for full Data on languages

[new!] HTML Syntax (with browser support list)

Typing Characters in widows.

On Windows systems, you can (usually - some application programs may override this) produce any character in the Windows character set (naturally, in its Windows encoding) as follows: Press down the (left) Alt key and keep it down. Then type, using the separate numeric keypad (not the numbers above the letter keys!), the four-digit code of the character in decimal. Finally release the Alt key. Notice that the first digit is always 0, since the code values are in the range 32 - 255 (decimal). For instance, to produce the letter "Ä" (which has code 196 in decimal), you would press Alt down, type 0196 and then release Alt. Upon releasing Alt, the character should appear on the screen. In MS Word, the method works only if Num Lock is set. This method is often referred to as Alt-0nnn. (If you omit the leading zero, i.e. use Alt-nnn, the effect is different, since that way you insert the character in code position nnn in the DOS character code! For example, Alt-196 would probably insert a graphic character which looks somewhat like a hyphen. There are variations in the behavior of various Windows programs in this area, and using those DOS codes is best avoided.) [s]

Reference:
http://www.obkb.com/dcljr/chars.html

• How to put non-Latin characters (languages) into your web page.

http://www.unicode.org/unicode/uni2book/ch06.pdf

Charsets:

The official registry of "charset" (i.e., character encoding) names, with references to documents defining their meanings, is kept by IANA at
http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets
(According to the documentation of the registration procedure, RFC 2978, it should be elsewhere, but it has been moved.) I have composed a tabular presentation of the registry, ordered alphabetically by "charset" name and accompanied with some hypertext references.

• RFC on UTF-8

keywords: Exclimation Mark
Document published: Jan. 09, 2000
Last modified or updated: Nov. 14 2005
By lyberty

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