I’ve been doing some web-weaving, and had some specific characters in mind that I was pretty sure I could get without resorting to custom fonts/fontawesome/svgs/images, and I was right!
Complete List of HTML Escape Characters
I’m using it for things like ⊢ and ⤍ , but there are a lot of characters in there that folks might be interested in browsing, if not using.
It was a treat re-discovering the maths ‘therefore’ symbol ( ∴ )
And there’s definitely some fun arrows in there! ( ↝ ↫ ↭ )
This one looks like a fish to me :) ⤖
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Good to know! I was using the Wikipedia page to look them up.
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With UTF8 so prevalent these days, is using HTML entities actually required? For example, I used to use “ and ” for smart quotes, but these days I just include the quote characters directly. It’s probably easier to remember/type the HTML entity code for some of these characters, so that’s a benefit… but is it required?
Of course not. You can simply copy-paste them from somewhere, or enter them directly if they’re on the keyboard somehow (like the Euro symbol). In fact you have to do it in CSS. But in HTML, it’s often simpler to just type out the code. For example I didn’t learn the Alt Gr-Shift-Minus trick for an em-dash until recently.
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