[thelist] List of illegal characters
Michael Mell
mike at nthwave.net
Mon Sep 16 11:56:01 CDT 2002
Bruce, your list has characters for &# 130 - 159. I believe these are illegal. To validly display those characters, you need to use unicode numbers.
Here is where I found the information:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/windows-chars.html
mike
Bruce Wilbur wrote:
> fstorr wrote:
> > I can't seem to find a full listing of
> > all the illegal characters. Does one exist, and if so, where?
>
> To the best of my knowledge, the 32 characters from 128 to 160 (inclusive) aren't allowed. They can all be represented with legal character entities.
>
> The ones I run across most often (and have memorized)are:
>
> char number name legal entity
>
133 Elipses …
> 146 Apostrophe ’
> 147 Leading Quote “
> 148 Trailing Quote ”
> 149 Bullet •
> ? 150 En dash –
> 151 Em dash —
>
> There's a useful list here: http://www.trans4mind.com/personal_development/HTMLGuide/specialCharacters2.htm
>
> and a nice Javascript-driven cut-and-paste converter here: http://www.foxinternet.co.uk/keyboard.html
>
> HTH!
> B
>
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