[thelist] List of illegal characters

Bruce Wilbur thelist at brucew.com
Sat Sep 14 07:44:01 CDT 2002


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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