Typographical Reference – Character Entities

Some useful character entities to help get everything typographically correct. Use of the decimal notation ensures widest possible compatibility. Named entities probably don’t work in NN & IE browsers less or equal to version 4. They are, however, easier to remember when hand-coding / amending pages.

Useful Typographical Character Entities
Character Decimal Name Notes
Hyphen. See Hyphens.
Non‐breaking hyphen. See Hyphens.
Figure Dash. See Hyphens.
– En Dash. See Hyphens.
— Em Dash. See Hyphens.
‘ Left single quote — compare to typewriter quote → ' (')
’ Apostrophe/Right single quote — compare to typewriter apostrophe/quote → ' (')
“ Opening Quotes — compare to typewriter quotes → " (")
” Closing Quotes — compare to typewriter quotes → " (")
… Horizontal Ellipsis — compare spacing to three periods … → …
Interrobang
Question Exclamation Mark
Exclamation Question Mark

See more info at http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/category/Po/list.htm

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