Using Additional HTML Characters in Posts

[Enchilada]

I have found by accident that you can easily insert HTML characters in my posts to IceInSpace.

This is very useful in science and maths as these characters can be displayed with in webpages, and they include Greek letters and foreign characters.

All characters have in HTML have standard codes, which are based on &#xxx;, where xxx or &#xxxx;, where xxxx is a number. For instance, the plus and minus sign is in fact "176" in this format comes out as "±".

I.e. The sequence is simply "Ampersand hash number semi-colon"

Samples of foreign characters include;

225 aacute á , 226 acirc â , 227 atilde ã , 228 auml ä
229 aring å , 230 aelig æ , 231 ccedil ç , 232 egrave è
233 eacute é , 234 ecirc ê , 235 euml ë , 236 igrave ì
237 iacute í , 238 icirc î , 239 iuml ï

or the Greek alphabet;

945 alpha α , 946 beta β , 947 gamma γ , 948 delta δ ,
949 epsilon ε , 950 zeta ζ , 951 eta η , 952 theta θ ,
953 iota ι , 954 kappa κ , 955 lambda λ , 956 mu μ ,
957 nu ν , 958 xi ξ , 959 omicron ο , 960 pi π ,
961 rho ρ , 963 sigma σ , 964 tau τ , 965 upsilon υ ,
966 phi φ , 967 chi χ , 968 psi ψ , 969 omega ω

The solar mass symbol is ⊙, which is code 8857

I have attached an HTML list of useful code which can be adapted in your text that I have used when writing webpages.

Attached is a suitable list for the important common symbols in use.

Hope this helps in writing better astronomical text...

Regards ⇒ Èl Enchá

Note: Our beloved Jen with all these extra characters will have an absolute field day along with her very precious emoticons!

[Enchilada]

Here is a small update of the pdf version HTML Table since the last reply.

Any usefulness here??

[Octane (Humayun)]

Probably not, man. Most people don't care enough about their grammar or spelling, let alone having to go to great lengths to insert non-standard characters into their text.

I use that sort of thing quite often, but, just use a character map (like, charmap.exe under Windows) for the symbols I can't remember off the top of my head.

Regards,
Humayun

Originally Posted by Enchilada

Any usefulness here??