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Posted by Toby A Inkster on 11/19/07 15:34
Harlan Messinger wrote:
> The Unicode code charts present all characters with their hexadecimal
> representations, but then people seem to tend to use the decimal
> representations when they use numeric character references in their web
> pages. Is my impression correct?
AIUI, decimal codes have slightly better support in some very old
browsers. I tend to use decimal, but occasionally use hex. It's the
decimal codes for commonly used character references that seem to have
stuck in my head though -- I can reel off the decimal values for the
various curly quotes, dashes and so forth, but couldn't list the hex
off the top of my head.
Also, FWIW, I tend to look up unknown character codes in gucharmap (GNOME
Unicode Character Map) which gives character details like so:
ƀ
U+0180 LATIN SMALL LETTER B WITH STROKE
General Character Properties
Unicode category: Letter, Lowercase
Various Useful Representations
UTF-8: 0xC6 0x80
Octal escaped UTF-8: \306\200
Decimal entity reference: ƀ
Annotations and Cross References
Notes:
• Americanist and Indo-Europeanist usage for phonetic beta
• Americanist orthographies use an alternate glyph with the stroke
through the bowl
• Old Saxon
See also:
• U+03B2 GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA
• U+2422 BLANK SYMBOL
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