> > There was recently a question posed to WIGenWeb Project list regarding the > > html coding of special characters in transcription work. > > > > You can find the references that list them online too. I usually > check the following page, but you have to remember to insert the > # sign on the numerical codes that are listed. They didn't > include them. Remember that the numerical codes start with &# and > end with a semi-colon. Then just look up the correct number for > that code and insert it. > > http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/latin1.html > > I think there are some newer codes available now, but not all > browsers will be able to handle the new ones. That's why I prefer > this list. It's actually a little more complicated: some browsers can handle the numeric codes but not the names. IIRC, Netscape 4.x will show &8212; as an em dash but will not display &emdash; properly. Sigh. The names are nice because they are self-documenting. See "A Simple Character Entity Chart" at <http://www.evolt.org/article/A_Simple_Character_Entity_Chart/17/21234/index .html> for more details. If you are not sure if a browser will display certain characters, view this page in that browser and you'll know. Bob Sullivan NY SC / Schenectady County CC