This document is a simple page for testing Web browsers as regards to support to characters beyond the ASCII character repertoire. Both character entities (&entityname; as defined in HTML 4.0) and character references (&#bignumber;) are tested.
Only a few sample characters are tested, picking up e.g. just one of the Greek characters, to make it easier to get the big picture of support in a browser. All the characters tested here belong to the set of characters for which there is an entity defined in HTML 4.0.
In the following table, the first column shows a character entity as it might be used in HTML; the second one shows what actually happens on your browser when that entity is used; the third and fourth one show what happens when a character reference &#n; (n in decimal) or &#xm; (m in hexadecimal) is used; naturally, columns 2, 3, 4 should display the same character; the next column gives a verbal description of the character.
© |
© | © | © | copyright symbol, letter C in a circle |
ÿ |
ÿ | ÿ | ÿ | letter y with dieresis (two dots above) |
Γ |
Γ | Γ | Γ | Greek capital letter gamma |
• |
• | • | • | bullet (small black circle) |
™ |
™ | ™ | ™ | trademark sign (small TM raised) |
∞ |
∞ | ∞ | ∞ | infinity symbol |
♥ |
♥ | ♥ | ♥ | black heart suit (valentine) |
— |
— | — | — | m dash (resembles hyphen -, but longer and perhaps thinner) |
€ |
€ | € | € | euro sign (symbol for the EMU currency) |
Date of last update: 2000-04-14
Jukka Korpela,