Typographical Reference

Some useful character entities to help get everything typographically correct. Use of the decimal notation ensures widest possible compatibility. Named entities probably don’t work in NN & IE browsers less or equal to version 4. They are, however, easier to remember when hand-coding / amending pages.

Useful Typographical Character Entities
Character Decimal Name Notes
‐ ‐ Hyphen. See Hyphens.
‑ ‑ Non‐breaking hyphen. See Hyphens.
‒ ‒ Figure Dash. See Hyphens.
– – – En Dash. See Hyphens.
— — — Em Dash. See Hyphens.
‘ ‘ ‘ Left single quote — compare to typewriter quote → ' (')
’ ’ ’ Apostrophe/Right single quote — compare to typewriter apostrophe/quote → ' (')
“ “ “ Opening Quotes — compare to typewriter quotes → " (")
” ” ” Closing Quotes — compare to typewriter quotes → " (")
… … … Horizontal Ellipsis — compare spacing to three periods … → ...
‽ ‽ Interrobang
⁈ ⁈ Question Exclamation Mark
⁉ ⁉ Exclamation Question Mark

See more info at http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/category/Po/list.htm

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