Special Characters for HTML  & XHTML

All of these characters should display in Internet Explorer 7 and 8, Firefox and Opera if you use the correct HTML Character Codes and font families. Many of them should display in older versions of Internet Explorer if these fonts are used: "Arial unicode MS", Arial, Geneva, sans-serif.

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Many symbols won't display in HTML WYSIWYG editors: Dreamweaver, Expression Web, FrontPage,  but if used, they will display in browsers.

Internet Explorer 6 and older versions are patchy in their support for these characters. Until recently, Microsoft have not been diligent in keeping up with the progress of web standards. The fifths and sixths fractions and many of the Miscellaneous symbols will only display as a default square.

They should all display correctly in IE 7 and IE 8 although in those browsers some of the fractions and Miscellaneous symbols may be hard to read in smaller sizes.

These Symbols should all display if you use charsets ISO 8859-1 or UTF-8.

General Punctuation

Mathematical Operators

Miscellaneous Technical

Geometric Shapes

Expanded Character Entity List: Miscellaneous Symbols

Greek Letters & Symbols Character Entity Reference