Appendix C. Character References

Although for the most part you will be adding characters for display in your Web pages directly from your keyboard, including the actual glyph in your code. However. there are many less used characters that are difficult to find on the keyboard or may not be encoded for a particular font.

The following list presents all of these special characters, and code that can be used to include them in any HTML page, without having to type the character glyph directly into your HTML. The code can either be entered as an HTML character entity reference or Unicode code point.

Chapter 2 highlights many commonly misused characters that should be set using character references.

Which set you use will depend on your needs, ...

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