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This material is based on Unicode Character Database and XML specification. It lists entities from HTML 4.01 and MathML 2 specifications. It refers to Unicode character charts.

You can browse by Scripts, Blocks, or Digits or use the search engine:



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Character Entity
Decimal Hexadecimal
Name Name & Alias
  • #[0-9]+ or &#[0-9]+; always searches for the decimal, #x[0-9A-Fa-f]+ or &#x[0-9A-Fa-f]+; for the hexadecimal, and &[A-Za-z]; for the entity references (e.g.  , #xabc, Ë)
  • Some ASCII characters have row "Looks like" . It lists other characters which resemble by its look this character. The selection is arbitrary and entirely subjective (e.g. "c" or "Y")
  • Name and Name & Alias searches are fulltext (limited to 300 hits) with wildcards " ? " (exactly one character) and " * " (any number of characters including zero)". Character " _ " can be used instead of space.
Character [ “ ] (“ / “ )
Name LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK Alias DOUBLE TURNED COMMA QUOTATION MARK
Block General Punctuation (2000.pdf) Subblock General punctuation
Category Punctuation, Initial quote (may behave like 'Punctuation, Open' or 'Punctuation, Close' depending on usage) Script ---
Surf This character can be used in Surf documents,
but it cannot be used in names of elements and attributes.
Related quotation mark - 0022
heavy double turned comma quotation mark ornament - 275D
reversed double prime quotation mark - 301D
Entity ldquo (HTML), ldquo (MathML), OpenCurlyDoubleQuote (MathML),

Comment: this is the preferred glyph (as opposed to 201F)


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