Getting special characters on to your web pages.
The following chart shows the special character codes for use in your HTML web pages (NOTE: not all characters will show up on a particular browser/platform combination):
NOTE: Many (possibly all) browsers do not support the following control characters. If you see a character code instead of a character in the first column, then your browser does not support that particular code.
| Character | Numeric Code | Name Code | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| � | N/A | NUL | |
|  | N/A | SOH | |
|  | N/A | STX | |
|  | N/A | ETX | |
|  | N/A | EOT | |
|  | N/A | ENQ | |
|  | N/A | ACK | |
|  | N/A | BEL | |
|  | N/A | BS | |
| 	 | N/A | TAB | |
| | N/A | LF | |
|  | N/A | VT | |
|  | N/A | FF | |
| | N/A | CR (you can use the tag <BR> to implement this control code) | |
|  | N/A | SO | |
|  | N/A | SI | |
|  | N/A | DLE | |
|  | N/A | DC1 | |
|  | N/A | DC2 | |
|  | N/A | DC3 | |
|  | N/A | DC4 | |
|  | N/A | NAK | |
|  | N/A | SYN | |
|  | N/A | ETB | |
|  | N/A | CAN | |
|  | N/A | EM | |
|  | N/A | SUB | |
|  | N/A | ESC | |
|  | N/A | FS | |
|  | N/A | GS | |
|  | N/A | RS | |
|  | N/A | US | |
| |  | N/A | DEL |
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