As far as I have been able to tell, this is the only complete listing of the first 255 character entities listed at Google. More information can be found at the listing of Character Entity Sets at The Worldwide Web Consortium, and the ASCII - ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) Table with HTML 3.0 Entity Names. Information on rendering complex mathematical equations using HTML can be found by searching at the Worldwide Web Consortium for Mathematical Equations.

Further information about character sets which are supported by HTML but not necessarily by all computer systems can be found at ISO8859-5 and Unicode characters in HTML, which covers ISO 8859 Latin-A, the Minimum European Subset and touches on the UTF-8 character set. ISO8859 Alphabet Soup is part of a dissertation about Unicode by Roman Czyborra which covers ISO8859 Latin (including the Eastern European languages which use a modified Latin character set), Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew, however because of the fact that it is part of the Web Archive, not all of the links may work the way they are supposed to. Other essential information can be found at Unicode. If you're interested, check out my UTF-8 Charts which are set to display the UTF-8 character set. If you're running a system greater than WindowsNT or Mac OS 8.5 (but not all of them, your mileage may vary) you should be able to see a large number of Latin, Greek and special characters. If you're not running one of those systems, or if your system doesn't understand Unicode characters (like Windows95 and Windows98), you'll probably see a bunch of question marks or little squares.

If either the ISO Latin-1 numeric entity name or the HTML escape sequence appears in the row, or if the character appears to be different than the common name, then your browser or operating system may not recognize the entity and cannot render it as designed. Also, many of the "unused" characters may show up as characters on your browser, depending on what operating system you're using. These should not be taken as a guarantee that the character will work on every browser and every operating system. If the character is an "unused" character in the list, then it means that, according to the HTML standard, it's not used for anything. Whether it shows up or not in a particular browser or a particular operating system is not an indication of a defect in other browsers or operating systems. The keyboard used was a standard US English QWERTY keyboard with no additions for characters with diacritical marks.

After you're done encoding your web pages, why not relax and burn some incense?

Return from whence you came.

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