Adding Characters from Outside the Encoding
If most of the characters on your page belong to one encoding and you just want to add a few characters from another, you can set the main encoding for the document (see page 330) and then use character references for characters outside of the main encoding.
A character reference can represent any character in Unicode by giving the character’s unique code within that set. A character’s code can be represented as either a regular (base 10) number or as a hexadecimal number. Some characters also have associated entities, that is, unique identifying words, that you can use instead of the number.
You can find a character’s code, in hexadecimal form (which is the most common), at the Unicode site: http://www.unicode.org/charts/ ...
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