Special Characters
This is a test document with special characters generated by
GNU emacs on X11R5. Note that not all WWW-browsers like these!
Try different fonts to find out what characters the font supports.
As a note from Jan Erik Moström <jem@sm.luth.se> suggested, the
default Mac Mosaic font Monaco doesn't support many
"special characters", whereas Courier does.
How to do it
Press down <CTRL>-Q, followed by three octal
digits. Below is a sample chart from 240 through 377.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
240 ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ §
250 ¨ © ª « ¬ ® ¯
260 ° ± ² ³ ´ µ ¶ ·
270 ¸ ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿
300 À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç
310 È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï
320 Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö ×
330 Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß
340 à á â ã ä å æ ç
350 è é ê ë ì í î ï
360 ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ÷
370 ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ
How you *should* do it
You always should avoid using the above "hardcoded" method by using
"entities" instead. An entity replacement is an ampersand, followed
by the hex-value for the character. However, some of the most popular
WWW-browsers (Mosaic, for example) do not recognize all the fancy
entities you would like to use - here comes the "hardcoded" approach
in if you can't be without the special character in mind. You may want
to look at a very good entity-table of
ISO-8859-1 characters by Martin Ramsch.
Johan Svensson 1994-06-01
(Web-Master@ecsdg.lu.se)