Sorting through my old bookmarks today I came across a useful and pretty exhaustive list of HTML codes thanks to the guys at ascii.cl. It’s amazing how many people don’t reference characters correctly when coding, especially in these multilingual times. Maybe they don’t know, maybe they just don’t care..

For anyone who’s not sure what I mean by an HTML code, it’s a set of standard characters which a browser will interpret as one special character. These begin with an ampersand (&) and end with a semicolon (;). It’s all to do with text encoding which is not something that can be concisely explained here, but for instance if you write £ in HTML it’s not guaranteed it will always display as £. You should use the HTML name £ or the HTML number £ to display the £ character.