|
TABLE OF SPECIAL CHARACTERS - UNICODE & ISO-8859
If you are writing an HTML or XML document, you have a much greater choice if you use UNICODE character code. In fact it is preferable to use UNICODE rather than ISO-8859 code. The correct characters will be recognized by all Browsers that adhere to International standards. You have a choice of using decimal code or hexadecimal code.
for the following characters, the digits for decimal unicode and iso 8859-1 are identical.
Have you ever wanted to send an email that includes foreign (French, German, Polish, etc) characters?
Most up to date email programs allow you to do this, but you have to know the correct codes to use.
To enter a special character, hold down [ALT] key and type 0xxx, where xxx represents digits from following tables.
This will also let you use special characters in Word documents, without the hassle of setting up special code pages and keyboards.
To enter a character in decimal UNICODE , type: &#xxx; (where xxx represent digits from the following table.)
For example, on the following line you should see the symbols for Euro, British Pound and US Dollar, each repeated twice, first with Unicode, then with ISO 8859-2.
€ € , £ £ , $ $ . If any one of them does not show correctly, adjust the Character setting in your browser.
In Netscape4 go to: View/Character Set; In Netscape6 or 7 go to View/Character Coding (you may have to click "More" to see an additional menu with more choices); In MS Internet Explorer 5 go to View/Encoding. Mac/Netscape users : choose "open in browser" from File menu.
char decimal
unicodeiso8859
char decimal
unicodeiso8859
char decimal
unicodeiso8859
€ 8364 128
$ 36 36
© 169 169
char | code | char | code | char | code | char | code | char | code | char | code | char | code | char | code | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
160 | ¡ | 161 | ¢ | 162 | ³ | 163 | ¤ | 164 | ¹ | 165 | ¦ | 166 | § | 167 | ||||||||
¨ | 168 | © | 169 | º | 170 | « | 171 | ¬ | 172 | | 173 | ® | 174 | ¿ | 175 | |||||||
° | 176 | ± | 177 | ² | 178 | ³ | 179 | ´ | 180 | µ | 181 | ¶ | 182 | · | 183 | |||||||
¸ | 184 | ¹ | 185 | º | 186 | » | 187 | ¾ | 188 | ½ | 189 | ¾ | 190 | ¿ | 191 | |||||||
à | 192 | - | 193 | â | 194 | ã | 195 | ä | 196 | å | 197 | æ | 198 | ç | 199 | |||||||
è | 200 | é | 201 | ê | 202 | ë | 203 | ì | 204 | í | 205 | î | 206 | ï | 207 | |||||||
ð | 208 | ñ | 209 | ò | 210 | ó | 211 | ô | 212 | õ | 213 | ö | 214 | × | 215 | |||||||
ø | 216 | ù | 217 | ú | 218 | û | 219 | ü | 220 | ý | 221 | þ | 222 | ß | 223 | |||||||
à | 224 | á | 225 | â | 226 | ã | 227 | ä | 228 | å | 229 | æ | 230 | ç | 231 | |||||||
è | 232 | é | 233 | ê | 234 | ë | 235 | ì | 236 | í | 237 | î | 238 | ï | 239 | |||||||
ð | 240 | ñ | 241 | ò | 242 | ó | 243 | ô | 244 | õ | 245 | ö | 246 | ÷ | 247 | |||||||
ø | 248 | ù | 249 | ú | 250 | û | 251 | ü | 252 | ý | 253 | þ | 254 | ÿ | 255 | |||||||
NOTE: The character signs have been placed using Windows ([ALT]0xxxx) ISO 8859-1 coding. Therefore they will not show up correctly, if browser is not set for Western ISO 8859-1 character set.
If you set browser for any other character set, in the Character column you will see the equivalent characters for the selected set.
For example:
English and North American browsers automatically select ISO-8859-1. Central European browsers automatically select ISO-8859-2. However, if the characters are written in Unicode, then all modern browsers will read the characters correctly, because every character in every language has been assigned a unique code. That is why it is desirable to use Unicode when preparing HTML or XML documents.
The following table shows the coding for selected characters from the Latin Extended-A table in http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0100.pdf. If your Browser is one of the latest versions (such as Netscape 7 or Microsoft Explorer 5.5) it will probably read this table correctly. if not adjust your Browser to read Unicode (UTF-8) Character Set. For a printer friendly version, select the
EE chart.
Table of UNICODE codes,
If you select "Central European ISO-8859-2", you will see Czech, Hungarian and Polish characters,
However, if you select "Central European Windows", you will still see Czech, Hungarian and Polish characters, but some of them are in different positions on the chart, because Microsoft does not strictly follow international standards!
If you select "Cyrillic ISO-8859-5", you will see Russian characters.
If you select "Unicode (UTF-8)" you will only see rectangles, because Unicode expects to see the "&#xxx;" coding, not the "[ALT]0xxx" used in preparing this chart.
Your screen driver may not allow you to see all characters correctly, for some sets. Likewise, your printer may not be able to print all sets. For a printer friendly version of each version select the
IS0-8859-1 chart or the IS0-8859-2 chart. They will print on any Ink-jet or Laser printer.
It is not neccesary to translate into decimals, for use with up-to-date Netscape and MS Explorer browsers. To enter a character using its hexadecimal number, type: &#Xhhh; (where hhh is the hexadecimal number.)
For example, the copyright sign © is typed © in decimal, but © in hexadecimal (letters are not case sensitive, a9 or A9 are both acceptable. Leading zeros nay be omitted, so © and © are read the same by the browser).
The tables of main interest are:
Basic Latin - U0000.pdf (The initial 128 character ASCII set - basic letters and numerals and control characters)
Latin-1 Supplement - U0080.pdf (the original extended ASCII set with West European accented letters of ISO-8859-1)
Latin Extended-A - U0100.pdf (the ISO-8859-2 set and more, Central European and Baltic letters)
Greek - U0370.pdf (modern and ancient Greek letters)
Cyrillic - U0400.pdf (includes all Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian letters)
Miscellaneous Symbols - U2600.pdf (Chess, card, weather, astrological, religious symbols, smileys, etc.)
for Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Scandinavian and some other Central European Languages.
The hexadecimal digits hhh used in the &#Xhhh; code.
char | code | char | code | char | code | char | code | char | code | char | code | char | code | char | code | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ā | 100 | Đ | 110 | Ę | 118 | Ķ | 136 | Ń | 143 | Ó | d3 | Ś | 15a | Ű | 170 | |||||||
ā | 101 | đ | 111 | ę | 119 | ķ | 137 | ń | 144 | ó | f3 | ś | 15b | ű | 171 | |||||||
Ă | 102 | Ď | 10e | Ě | 11a | Ĺ | 139; | Ņ | 145 | Œ | 152 | Š | 160 | Ų | 172 | |||||||
ă | 103 | ď | 10f | ě | 11b | ĺ | 13a | ņ | 146 | œ | 153 | š | 161 | ų | 173 | |||||||
Ą | 104 | Ē | 112 | Ļ | 13b | Ň | 147 | ŕ | 155 | Ţ | 162 | Ÿ | 178 | |||||||||
ą | 105 | ē | 113 | Ģ | 122 | ļ | 13c | ň | 148 | Ŗ | 156 | ţ | 163 | Ź | 179 | |||||||
Ć | 106 | ĕ | 115 | ģ | 123 | Ľ | 13d | Ō | 14c | ŗ | 157 | ź | 17a | |||||||||
ć | 107 | Ė | 116 | Ī | 12a | ľ | 13e | ō | 14d | Ř | 158 | ť | 165 | Ż | 17b | |||||||
Č | 10c | ė | 117 | ī | 12b | Ő | 150 | ř | 159 | ż | 17c | |||||||||||
č | 10d | Į | 12e | Ł | 141 | ő | 151 | Ş | 15e | Ž | 17d | |||||||||||
į | 12f | ł | 142 | ş | 15f | ž | 17e |
Return to Top of page.
Return to Computer Help - Table of Contents.
Return to Home Page.
Last update Feb. 28, 2012 |