Unicode Explained

APPENDIX

Tables for Writing Characters

This appendix consists of compact information on writing characters. The first three

tables present some key sequences for writing some common characters in a few envi-

ronments. The last table is different: it maps the Symbol font to Unicode.

In the first three tables, characters are classified logically, by meaning and usage, rather

than by Unicode structure. Table A-1 contains Latin letters and their ligatures; Ta-

ble A-2 is for Greek letters and punctuation; and Table A-3 has other commonly used

characters. The columns in these tables are:

• A glyph of the character (in Times or Times New Roman font, if possible).

• A name of the character. Usually the Unicode name is used, but for brevity, some

attributes have been omitted, when they can be inferred. Moreover, the name

“guillemet” is used instead of “double angle quotation mark.”

• The sequence of typing the character. This contains the Unicode number in hex-

adecimal. You can use the number to construct the character reference &#x n ; that

can be used in HTML and XML.

• The Alt-n sequence. This contains the Unicode number in decimal, except for

numbers in the range 128–159, which are Windows Latin 1 codes. For numbers

in the range 160–255, the sequences work in all Windows environments.

• A special way that may work in MS Word. This depends on Word version and

settings as well as the keyboard. ...