Using ascii text to render characters correctly within
your browser
As you can see from the table below, using Unicode characters
is simple. Just substitute the Unicode sequence in the table for
the corresponding character. Then use all of those sequences wherever
you want to include letters numbers and symbols. This is required
in some cases to display symbols like copyright and trademark
which can't be displayed in a web browser by typing the symbol
on your keyboard.
@ @ E E M M U
U c c k k s s
. . F F N N V
V d d l l t t
- - G G O O W
W e e m m u u
_ _ H H b P X
X f f n n b v
A A I I Q Q Y
Y g g o o w w
B B J J R R Z
Z h h p p b x
C C K K S S a
a i i q q b y
b D L L T T b
b j j r r z z
There are many more characters in addition to the basics shown
above. Reasons vary for using Unicode, but one reason is to hide
an email address from Spam harvesting software while still
allowing it to be visible on the page.
One of these is to code your email addresses in something called
Unicode. This is a "language" for encoding special characters
on web pages. All modern browsers support Unicode as it's primary
intention is to allow languages all over the planet to be represented.
For example, the following email address:
webmaster@internet-tips.net
will be shown in Unicode as:
webmaster
@internet
-tips.net
The Trademark symbol™ is represented by &153; ©
is shown by using © in your HTML code in place of the
actual copyright symbol. The ampersand (&) is displayed by
the symbols & within HTML code.
Because < and > are used in HTML code, to
be visible on the page you must instead type the <
and > characters within HTML code. If you type the
symbol directly into text they are read by browsers as HTML and
will hide any text within themselves. Just for fun, try viewing
the source code of this page to see how complex this can become
to make visible!
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