[Javascript] Encoding Unicode characters in HTML

Mon Aug 22 03:39:04 CDT 2005

>>On 8/18/05, Judah Frangipane <judah-fc at t8design.com> wrote:
>> I know how a person can encode an ampersand in html. They use "&amp;"
>> and this code is rendered by the browser into "&".
>> 
>> What I don't know is how to encode a unicode character. I am trying to
>> encode a bullet character. The keystroke is ALT+0149 as displayed here
>> .. 

>The bullet character is unicode code point 8226 (2022 in hex), not
>0149. 149 is its "ASCII" value in some character encoding. Maybe ISO
>8859-1, maybe UTF-8, but maybe not. If you use &#149; (anything over
>127) you may need to make sure you specify a character encoding for
>your page to be certain it displays correctly for browsers on all
>platforms.

When there is ASCII represention for . (Alt+0149) why go for unicode?

So it is simply: &#149; If you are unsure about what I am talking about
surround the ASCII value of any character (say 'A' which is 65) by '&#' in
the beginning and ';' in the end. So, for A it is &#65;

I created the following code, which I use, whenever I need to find the ASCII
for a specific character.

<script>

function gen_ascii_table(){
  // Start/End Values
  var init=32; // 32 is space
  var end=10000;

  var d=document;
  d.writeln('<table>');
  d.writeln(' <tr>');
  d.writeln('   <th>S.No</th><th>ASCII</th><th>Character</th>');
  d.writeln(' </tr>');

  for(var i=init; i<=end; ++i){
    d.writeln(' <tr>');
      d.write('   <td align=right>' + (i-init+1) + '.</td>');
      d.write('   <td>' + i + '</td>');
      d.write('   <td>&#' + i + ';</td>\n'); // <td>&#32;</td> and so on
    d.writeln(' </tr>');
  }
  d.writeln('</table>');
}

</script>

And, call this function wherever required:
<body>
<script> gen_ascii_table(); </script>
</body>

HTH :)