Special characters
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These special characters are shown in the table below they supplement the standard ASCII characters and ISO-8859-1 characters. The numbers used to represent these characters are actually the Unicode values. (See UTF-8)
In some cases the same glyph will appear for two different characters. It is still important to use the correct number code or word code since some processing programs such as MathML may be depending on it to properly format the data.
The Greek alphabet is only shown by samples. As can be seen from the samples it lies between #913 and #937 for upper case and from #945 to #969 for lower case. In Unicode this would be U-0391 to U-03A9 and U-03B1 to U-03C9. (These are hexadecimal digits.) PML supports the full Greek alphabet (and Hebrew).
The table shows the decimal values for numeric entries but hexadecimal values will work just as well. For example decimal character reference for the Euro symbol (€) is € and the hexadecimal character reference €.
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[edit] Code Chart
Notes Column:
- 1 means this is supported on GEB products
- 2 means this is supported on ETI products
- 3 means this is supported on Amazon Kindle
- 4 means this is supported in PML - click for a full list
The codes in the range of 300's in the table below are needed to augment ISO-8859-1 to support the pronunciation guide in a dictionary and the alphabet of some European countries. See also ISO-8859-15. The Word Code is the Entity reference if available.
| Number Code | Word Code | Description | Character | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ā | long a (a macron) | ā | 4 | |
| ă | short a (a breve) | ă | 4 | |
| ē | long e | ē | 4 | |
| ĕ | short e | ĕ | 4 | |
| ī | long i | ī | 4 | |
| ĭ | short i | ĭ | 4 | |
| ō | long o | ō | 4 | |
| ŏ | short o | ŏ | 4 | |
| Π| Π| capital ligature OE | Π| 2,4 |
| œ | œ | small ligature oe | œ | 2,4 |
| Š | Š | large S caron | Š | 4 |
| š | š | small s caron | š | 4 |
| ū | long u | ū | 4 | |
| ŭ | short u | ŭ | 4 | |
| Ÿ | Ÿ | capital Y umlat | Ÿ | 2,4 |
| Ž | Ž | large Z caron | Ž | 4 |
| ž | ž | small z caron | ž | 4 |
| ƒ | ƒ | function (florin) | ƒ | 2,4 |
| ˆ | Circumflex accent. | ˆ | 3 | |
| ˇ | Caron/Hacek | ˇ | 1,2,3,4 | |
| ˘ | Breve | ˘ | 1,2,3,4 | |
| ˙ | Dot Accent (above) | ˙ | 1,2,3,4 | |
| ˚ | Ring (above) | ˚ | 1,2,3 | |
| ˛ | Ogonek | ˛ | 1,2,3 | |
| ˜ | ˜ | small tilde | ˜ | 2,3 |
| ˝ | Double Acute Accent | ˝ | 1,2,3 | |
| Α | Α | Capital Alpha | Α | 4 |
| Β | Β | Beta | Β | 4 |
| Γ | Γ | Gamma | Γ | 4 |
| Δ | Δ | delta | Δ | 4 |
| Π | Π | Capital Pi | Π | 1,2,4 |
| Σ | Σ | Sigma | Σ | 1,2,4 |
| Ω | Ω | Omega | Ω | 1,2,4 |
| α | α | alpha | α | 4 |
| β | β | beta | β | 4 |
| γ | γ | gamma | γ | 4 |
| δ | δ | delta | δ | 4 |
| π | π | small pi | π | 1,2,3,4 |
| ω | ω | small omega | ω | 4 |
| ϖ | ϖ | Greek PIV | ϖ | 1,2 |
| ‌ | ‌ | zero width non joiner | | 2 |
| ‍ | ‍ | zero width joiner | | |
| ‑ | non-breaking hyphen | ‑ | 4 | |
| – | – | en dash | – | 2,4 |
| — | — | em dash | — | 2,4 |
| ‘ | ‘ | left single curly quote | ‘ | 2,4 |
| ’ | ’ | right single curly quote | ’ | 2,4 |
| ‚ | ‚ | single low 9 quote | ‚ | 2,4 |
| “ | “ | left double curly quote | “ | 2,4 |
| ” | ” | right double curly quote | ” | 2,4 |
| „ | „ | double low 9 quote | „ | 2,4 |
| † | † | dagger | † | 2,4 |
| ‡ | ‡ | double dagger | ‡ | 2,4 |
| • | • | bullet | • | 2,4 |
| … | … | horizontal ellipse | … | 2,4 |
| ‰ | ‰ | per mille sign | ‰ | 2 |
| ‸ | caret | ‸ | 4 | |
| ‹ | ‹ | single left angle quote | ‹ | 2,4 |
| › | › | single right angle quote | › | 2,4 |
| ‽ | interrobang | ‽ | 4 | |
| ⁂ | asterism | ⁂ | 4 | |
| ⁄ | ⁄ | Fraction Slash[1] | ⁄ | 1,2 |
| € | € | Euro | € | 1,2 |
| ™ | ™ | trademark sign | ™ | 2,4 |
| Ω | Ohm Sign | Ω | 1,2 | |
| ← | leftward arrow | ← | 4 | |
| → | rightward arrow | → | 4 | |
| ∂ | ∂ | Partial Differential | ∂ | 1,2,4 |
| ∆ | Increment | ∆ | ||
| ∏ | ∏ | N-Ary Product | ∏ | 1,2 |
| ∑ | ∑ | N-Ary Summation | ∑ | 1,2 |
| − | − | minus (subtraction) | − | |
| √ | √ | Square Root | √ | 1,2,4 |
| ∞ | ∞ | Infinity | ∞ | 1,2,4 |
| ∟ | Right Angle | ∟ | ||
| ∥ | parallel to | ∥ | 4 | |
| ∩ | Intersection | ∩ | ||
| ∫ | ∫ | Integral | ∫ | 1,2,4 |
| ∼ | ∼ | Similar To | ∼ | 1,2 |
| ≈ | ≈ | Almost equal | ≈ | 1,2 |
| ≠ | ≠ | Not Equal | ≠ | 1,2,4 |
| ≡ | Identical to | ≡ | ||
| ≤ | ≤ | Less Than or Equal To | ≤ | 1,2 |
| ≥ | ≥ | Greater Than or Equal To | ≥ | 1,2 |
| ◊ | ◊ | Open Diamond/Lozenge | ◊ | 1,2 |
| ♠ | ♠ | spades suit | ♠ | 4 |
| ♡ | White Heart Suit | ♡ | 4 | |
| ♢ | White Diamond Suit | ♢ | 1,2,4 | |
| ♣ | ♣ | club suit | ♣ | 4 |
| ♤ | White Spade Suit | ♤ | ||
| ♥ | ♥ | hearts suit | ♥ | |
| ♦ | ♦ | diamond Suit | ♦ | |
| ♧ | White Club Suit | ♧ | ||
| ff | Ligature ff | ff | ||
| fi | Ligature fi | fi | 1,2 | |
| fl | Ligature fl | fl | 1,2,4 | |
| ſt | Ligature ft | ſt |
[edit] footnotes
- ↑ The ⁄ character allows you to create fractions that flow more proportionately with the surrounding text. 1/2 vs. 1⁄2 and 3/4 vs. 3⁄4
- another method using small text: 1⁄2 or 3⁄4 [or with extra spacing & superscripts 1 ⁄ 2 or 3 ⁄ 4 ]
- and another method using a mixture: 1/2 or 3/4 - using < sup > with the standard /
- and another method using a mixture: 1/2 or 3/4 - using < small > and < sup > with standard /
- and another method using a mixture: 1⁄2 or 3⁄4 - using < sup > with & frasl;
Note that the use of ligatures in text may cause searches to not find the character sequence.
[edit] Using special characters in Windows
You can use a character map to show and use all of the characters available in a particular font set that you have on your system. Select "Start » Programs » Accessories » System Tools » Character Map" to load the character map.
