ASCII-EBCDIC Character Set
The HTML Document Character Set
sample description:
| ISO 8859-1 | |||||
| Symbol | Description | In HTML, type this: | ...or this: | included in windows-1252 char. set? | |
| no-break space/ non-breaking space |
|   | Y | ||
| ¡ | ¡ | inverted exclamation mark | ¡ | ¡ | |
| ¢ | ¢ | Cent sign | ¢ | ||
| £ | £ | Pound sterling | £ | ||
| ¤ | ¤ | General currency sign | ¤ | ||
| ¥ | ¥ | Yen sign | ¥ | U+00A1 ISOnum | |
| ¦ | ¦ | Broken vertical bar |
Use the following tag in HTML to use the Microsoft Windows character set:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
A single 16-bit number is assigned to each code element defined by the Unicode Standard. Each of these 16-bit numbers is called a code value and, when referred to in text, is listed in hexadecimal form following the prefix "U". For example, the code value U+0041 is the hexadecimal number 0041 (equal to the decimal number 65). It represents the character "A" in the Unicode Standard.
| REFERENCE | DESCRIPTION | windows-1252 | ENTITY | ASCII | ||
| Dec | Hex | |||||
| | (carriage return) | |||||
|   | (space) | |||||
| ! | ! | Exclimation Mark | ! | 33 | 21 | |
| " | " | Quotation Mark | " | " | 34 | 22 |
| # | # | Number Sign, Octothorp, "pound" |
# | 35 | 23 | |
| $ | $ | Dollar Sign, USD | $ | 36 | 24 | |
| " | " | Quotation Mark | " | " | 34 | 22 |
| " | " | Quotation Mark | " | " | 34 | 22 |
| " | " | Quotation Mark | " | " | 34 | 22 |
| " | " | Quotation Mark | " | " | 34 | 22 |
| " | " | Quotation Mark | " | " | 34 | 22 |
| REFERENCE | DESCRIPTION |