> What I meant was since I, and probably a lot of others, don't know what
> all the different character sets look like and since the names are mostly
> meaningless, it would be nice if there was a graphic available somewhere
> that showed all of the common sets on one page, each with their label.
A good HTML reference (e.g. from O'Reilly publishers) should include an
appendix of Character Entities. You'll get a table showing the Numeric Entities
and their alternative Named Entities (not available for most symbols), as used to
specify the symbols in webpages. Also included in the table will be the Symbols
themselves, along with their Descriptions.
Not all 256 characters in the ISO character set appear in the table. Missing ones
are not recognized by browsers, and of those that are, some are not fully conformant.
Arachne doesn't recognize as many as she should.
I haven't found a table comparing the HTML Numeric Entities with ASCII, but the
names and symbols _are_ included (which is what was asked for).
Incidentally, Sam Heywood's original mail of 4th March has the ASCII and HTML
entities exchanged e.g. ASCII ALT+168 = � = HTML ¿ or ¿
For your information, the � is the "general currency sign" HTML ¤ or ¤
> What do we call the French language character that looks like a C with a little
curly thingy under it?
-- Capital C, cedilla HTML Ç or Ç
-- Small c, cedilla HTML ç or ç
> One list member described a certain character as "the one used to start laws".
> I think he was referring to a character typically used to signal the beginning of
> a new paragraph.
-- Paragraph sign HTML ¶ or ¶
Guess who doesn't know the ASCII equivalents!
Go get your fill of the HTML entities at
http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/schluter/doc/tags/characters.html
(Problem is that not all browsers will display the symbols, so ASK and
I'll put up a screendump as a GIF.)
Jake
