[OT] Typo, someone was asking?
[OT] Typo, someone was asking?
- Subject: [OT] Typo, someone was asking?
- From: Ian King <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:48:07 +0100
- Authenticated-sender:
Those strange characters.
What are they called?
This is not definitive, but here are a few;
(curious to see what gets through)
Some ASCII numbers,
before the days of Unicode)
á a acute 135
à a grave
â a circumflex
ä a dieresis
ã a tilde
å a ring
ç c cedilla, etc.
† dagger 160
° degree
¢ cent
£ Pound sterling
§ section
• bullet 165
¶ paragraph
ß German double s
´ acute 171
¨ dieresis
≠ not equal to
Æ AE ligature 174
Ø O slash 175
∞ infinity
± plus or minus
≤ less than or equal to
≥ greater than or equal to
¥ Yen
µ mu
∂ delta
∑ Sigma, summation
∏ Pi 3.142…
π pi
∫ integral 186
ª ordinal feminine
º ordinal masculine
Ω Omega
æ ae ligature
ø o slash
¿ question down
¡ exclam down
¬ logical not
√ radical initiate
ƒ florin
≈ approx equal
∆ Delta 198
« guillemot left
» guillemot right
… ellipsis 201
– en dash 208
— em dash
“ quote double left
” quote double right
‘ quote left
’ quote right
÷ divide by
◊ lozenge
⁄ fraction slash
€ Euro currency
‹ guillemot single left
› guillemot single right
fi fi ligature
fl fl ligature
‡ dagger double
· multiply dot, period centred
‰ per thousand
ˆ circumflex
˜ tilde
¯ macron diacritic
˘ breve diacritic
˙ raised dot accent
˚ raised ring diacritic
¸ cedilla
˝ hungarian umlaut
˛ ogonek diacritic
ˇ caron diacritic
just don’t get me started with point sizes…
HTH, Ian
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