Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 03/30/07 09:06

Scripsit Cogito:

> Now I need to understand it better.

You need to buy my book "Unicode Explained" then. :-))

Seriously, it's simple: &#xN; denotes the Unicode character with N as its
code number, in hexadecimal. Well, the Unicode part is not simple, but for
this purpose, you don't need to know very much about.

> How did you ascertain that
> ♕ is a queen? Is there a list somewhere?

Yes, there is a list, and I actually checked (using a text editor) from a
local copy of the plain text file in the Unicode character data base,
http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt

But you might find the (non-authoritative, but generally reliable) database
www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/
more convinient: you can search by words and get detailed results, with
images of characters.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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