January 29, 2003
Simple Character Entity Reference
These charts will allow you to copy and paste the appropriate character and numeric entities for your documents. To be sure a particular browser supports the entities (both named and numeric), simply open your browser to this pages and view the charts. If the character you want doesn’t appear in the target browser, it doesn’t work (simple, huh?). Jump to charts now ↓
UPDATE: Thanks to Dean Matsueda, I now have a PDF chart of the character entity tables for your downloading pleasure.
UPDATE, Part II: Please also be aware of Jim Rutherfords excellent Character Entity Reference Chart.
Other sources regarding character encoding
- Character entity references in HTML 4 (w3c)
- Character Entity Chart
- Visibone Curious Web Characters
- A Simple Character Entity Chart: Browser support table
- Character to Entity Encoder Bookmarklet (via)
- A tutorial on character code issues (via)
- The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (via)
What you’ll find below is the copy of the character entity specification from the W3C with tabled versions of the entities following.
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Deb Ellis
Hey guy! This is a great reference page; I haven't ever come across one that's as complete as this.
Thanks for making my work easier!!!
Deb
Posted by: Deb Ellis | September 9, 2004 07:24 PM
Tony
I'm just here to make your life better and easier Deb. Glad that you like it.
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September 9, 2004 08:36 PM
Jacin
Thanks for the ref. This will be a huge time saver.
Ciao
» Jacin
Posted by: Jacin | September 15, 2004 08:21 AM
Andrew
Very nice indeed! Why can't the organizations that create these specifications have such an easy to reference page?
Good job Tony!
Andrew
Posted by: Andrew | September 15, 2004 04:34 PM
brandy
just was pointed to your site by a friend. Very nice :)
Posted by: brandy | September 30, 2004 01:31 PM
phnk
Hey, this page was quoted on Zeldman's Jan 14th list of links. Fame it is ;)
Posted by: phnk | January 14, 2005 08:29 PM
schilke
> *These charts* will al ...
you should fix that link ;-)
Indeed a nice reference. What's left is browser/os (in)compatibilities as there are some.
Posted by: schilke | January 15, 2005 03:58 AM
Aage Utnes
Hello, Tony!
Pleased to see that You're pondering this problem and challenge. I've had some headaches myself trying to get used to UTF-8 as coding in RSS, while the regular xhtml-pages are written in a iso-8859-1.
Please fix the link flaw in 'Jan 29 - lunch time'!
On my IE/Win I was redirected to 'localhost/blog-fu/...' which might be a local surrounding where You do not want an audience ...
Posted by: Aage Utnes | January 15, 2005 09:33 AM
Tony
Aage, the date is from when this way written. It was over two years ago.
You were redirected? When and where? I've never encountered that problem before.
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January 15, 2005 10:02 AM
oerdec
Hi,
"these charts" is a link to http://localhost... You should correct this.
Thanks for this resource anyway.
oerdec
Posted by: oerdec | January 15, 2005 01:23 PM
Tobias Bergius
Awesome!
Hoho. And your preview is awesome too! :P JS?
Posted by: Tobias Bergius | January 15, 2005 08:03 PM
Dokerr
Nice handy list.
One additional subset that would be nice to be included are those entites that can be used for Hawaiian characters. They seem to be very little known (visit any Hawaiian-orientated site) to see just how they try to overcome this. They either use similar looking characters, none at all or use punctaution marks for the okina. These are the correct codes to use:
Ā (Ā)
ā (ā)
Ē (Ē)
ē (ē)
Ī (Ī)
ī (ī)
Ō (Ō)
ō (ō)
Ū (Ū)
ū (ū)
‘ (‘) - the "okina"
When using Hawaiian palace names or Hawaiian words it is nice to see them on screen as they would be written.
e.g. HÄ?li‘i pÄ?lala
Posted by: Dokerr | January 17, 2005 03:11 PM
Simon Zirkunow
Found you via pixelgraphix.
Very very nice and useful to me. Great thing!
Posted by: Simon Zirkunow | January 18, 2005 06:18 AM
David
Thanks for the great resource!
Posted by: David | April 25, 2005 02:30 AM