HTML Topics: Symbol Font (Historical) |
Symbol Font (Historical)
The previous page shows how Greek and other mathematical symbols can be displayed using the named characters in HTML 4.0. This page shows how Greek and other characters were displayed in earlier browsers prior to HTML 4.0. Web page writers exploited the use of the FACE="SYMBOL" attribute of the <FONT> tag, and due to a so-called "bug" in most browsers, this approached worked fine.
The following table is made up of 3 times 10 columns. For each character glyph, the table lists
For the first half of the table (where nnn < 128) the ASCII equivalent character name was used, e.g. for greek letter theta the letter q was used as in <FONT FACE="SYMBOL">q</FONT>. For the second half of the table (where mmm > 160) the syntax was based on character value as in <FONT FACE="SYMBOL">&#nnn;</FONT>, e.g. for an infinity symbol the number 165 was used.
033 | ! | ! | 034 | " | " | 035 | # | # | 036 | $ | $ | 037 | % | % | 038 | & | & | 039 | ' | ' | 040 | ( | ( | ||||||
041 | ) | ) | 042 | * | * | 043 | + | + | 044 | , | , | 045 | - | - | 046 | . | . | 047 | / | / | 048 | 0 | 0 | 049 | 1 | 1 | 050 | 2 | 2 |
051 | 3 | 3 | 052 | 4 | 4 | 053 | 5 | 5 | 054 | 6 | 6 | 055 | 7 | 7 | 056 | 8 | 8 | 057 | 9 | 9 | 058 | : | : | 059 | ; | ; | 060 | < | < |
061 | = | = | 062 | > | > | 063 | ? | ? | 064 | @ | @ | 065 | A | A | 066 | B | B | 067 | C | C | 068 | D | D | 069 | E | E | 070 | F | F |
071 | G | G | 072 | H | H | 073 | I | I | 074 | J | J | 075 | K | K | 076 | L | L | 077 | M | M | 078 | N | N | 079 | O | O | 080 | P | P |
081 | Q | Q | 082 | R | R | 083 | S | S | 084 | T | T | 085 | U | U | 086 | V | V | 087 | W | W | 088 | X | X | 089 | Y | Y | 090 | Z | P |
091 | [ | [ | 092 | \ | \ | 093 | ] | ] | 094 | ^ | ^ | 095 | _ | _ | 096 | ` | ` | 097 | a | a | 098 | b | b | 099 | c | c | 100 | d | d |
101 | e | e | 102 | f | f | 103 | g | g | 104 | h | h | 105 | i | i | 106 | j | j | 107 | k | k | 108 | l | l | 109 | m | m | 110 | n | n |
111 | o | o | 112 | p | p | 113 | q | q | 114 | r | r | 115 | s | s | 116 | t | t | 117 | u | u | 118 | v | v | 119 | w | w | 120 | x | x |
121 | y | y | 122 | z | z | 123 | { | { | 124 | | | | | 125 | } | } | 126 | ~ | ~ | ||||||||||||
161 | ¡ | ¡ | 162 | ¢ | ¢ | 163 | £ | £ | 164 | ¤ | ¤ | 165 | ¥ | ¥ | 166 | ¦ | ¦ | 167 | § | § | 168 | ¨ | ¨ | 169 | © | © | 170 | ª | ª |
171 | « | « | 172 | ¬ | ¬ | 173 | | | 174 | ® | ® | 175 | ¯ | ¯ | 176 | ° | ° | 177 | ± | ± | 178 | ² | ² | 179 | ³ | ³ | 180 | ´ | ´ |
181 | µ | µ | 182 | ¶ | ¶ | 183 | · | · | 184 | ¸ | ¸ | 185 | ¹ | ¹ | 186 | º | º | 187 | » | » | 188 | ¼ | ¼ | 189 | ½ | ½ | 190 | ¾ | ¾ |
191 | ¿ | ¿ | 192 | À | À | 193 | Á | Á | 194 | Â | Â | 195 | Ã | Ã | 196 | Ä | Ä | 197 | Å | Å | 198 | Æ | Æ | 199 | Ç | Ç | 200 | È | È |
201 | É | É | 202 | Ê | Ê | 203 | Ë | Ë | 204 | Ì | Ì | 205 | Í | Í | 206 | Î | Î | 207 | Ï | Ï | 208 | Ð | Ð | 209 | Ñ | Ñ | 210 | Ò | Ò |
211 | Ó | Ó | 212 | Ô | Ô | 213 | Õ | Õ | 214 | Ö | Ö | 215 | × | × | 216 | Ø | Ø | 217 | Ù | Ù | 218 | Ú | Ú | 219 | Û | Û | 220 | Ü | Ü |
221 | Ý | Ý | 222 | Þ | Þ | 223 | ß | ß | 224 | à | à | 225 | á | á | 226 | â | â | 227 | ã | ã | 228 | ä | ä | 229 | å | å | 230 | æ | æ |
231 | ç | ç | 232 | è | è | 233 | é | é | 234 | ê | ê | 235 | ë | ë | 236 | ì | ì | 237 | í | í | 238 | î | î | 239 | ï | ï | 240 | ð | ð |
241 | ñ | ñ | 242 | ò | ò | 243 | ó | ó | 244 | ô | ô | 245 | õ | õ | 246 | ö | ö | 247 | ÷ | ÷ | 248 | ø | ø | 249 | ù | ù | 250 | ú | ú |
251 | û | û | 252 | ü | ü | 253 | ý | ý | 254 | þ | þ | 255 | ÿ | ÿ | 256 | Ā | Ā |
There are a few characters that are different between the current ISO Latin 1 and new ISO Latin 9 standards (e.g. the euro character occupies position 164 in ISO Latin 9, and the 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 characters at positions 188, 189, and 190 have been replaced in ISO Latin 9 by other European characters).
Although Microsoft makes use of character positions 128 through 160, these are conventionally left unused for workstations running under X-windows: so if you wanted your pages to appear correctly on all systems, you had to avoid the use of the non-standard characters.
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