I am designing a website http://www.writingmod.com and am having some problems with characters appearing as little squares instead of what they should be.
I located a chart of HTML (ASCII) codes and tried to use them, but they do not show correctly in the browser, e.g., the copyright symbol appears as a heart or a question mark. I like to use m-dashes in my text and I can't even find a code for it.
2007-04-02 04:11:20 · 4 answers · asked by The Gadfly 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
It could be down to the charset you are using. Anyway have a look at http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp where you will see that to post the copyright symbol ( © ) you use © and so on.
2007-04-02 04:18:24 · answer #1 · answered by carbonize 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
While the escape characters of various sorts are a very good practice, keep in mind that not all characters display in all fonts on all computers! Your Papyrus font will likely show up on my spouse's laptop as Comic Sans and some of your special characters will show up as boxes no matter which alt combinations you use to code them...
2007-04-02 12:22:06 · answer #2 · answered by fjpoblam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use non-standard characters on my website by using the ALT+charnum to input them. If you check your Windows character map using the font you chose for your website, the characters are all displayed for your use. Simply click on the character you're interested in using and the ALT code will be displayed for you in the bottom of the window. For instance, for an © you'd enter ALT+0169. For a ç you'd use ALT+0231 (using Times New Roman). Try it...I think you'll find it works for you.
2007-04-02 11:27:24 · answer #3 · answered by John S Wiggins 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This link shows a good selection of the codes available.
To use just put the code in the text of the web page.
So to show an ampersand you code &
2007-04-02 11:25:21 · answer #4 · answered by AnalProgrammer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋