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23 Sep 2003 by Matthew Linderman
A guide to typing accented letters in Mac, Windows, and HTML. Olé.
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23 Sep 2003 | f5 said...
Webmonkey's got a more extensive list of special characters...and there's always Popchar.
23 Sep 2003 | Bob said...
Evolt has a nice chart a well.
24 Sep 2003 | Andrerib said...
This one is very nice.
Very easy to identify the character your are after and then read the corresponding code.
24 Sep 2003 | Mal Ross said...
In Windows, you can also use Ctrl+Alt+whatever for acute accents. I think. Certainly, Ctrl+Alt+E gives you .
24 Sep 2003 | jake said...
I usually use this HTML4 reference.
01 Oct 2003 | Justin said...
What about em dashes and their friends the en dashes? I can never remember which is which: Option+- or Option+Shift+-?
31 Jan 2005 | compatelius said...
bocigalingus must be something funny.
