Special Characters

If you’ve been designing webpages or even surfing the net, sometimes you’ll notice that certain symbols, such as commas or quotation marks, appear as unknown symbols, or you might be trying to prevent a shortcut code appearing as a symbol.

There is a way to fix this, especially if you’re a webdesigner. There are certain codes you need to use for certain symbols, to ensure that they appear.

A common one is a space. It might sound silly and you might ask “Can’t I just add a heap of spaces with my space bar?” – but it won’t work, and alternatively,   needs to be typed in.

Here is a table of other common symbols used, including the codes for common symbols.

Numbers and Letters

• 0 through to 9 represent the digits 0-9 in order.
• A through to Z represent the uppercase letters A-Z in order.
• a through to z represent the lowercase letters a-z in order.

Hopefully these are of some use to you!