Wiki ASCII codes page

Please see Wiki special characters for a page that many believe should supercede this one.

ASCII character codes that I think will work for everybody. On many systems you can make these by holding down alt and then, using the number pad, typing the number of the character in question.

 128 Ç  136 ê  144 É  152 ÿ  160 á  168 ¿         184 ©                208 ð  216 Ï  224 Ó  232 Þ         248 °
 129 ü  137 ë  145 æ  153 Ö  161 í  169 ®                              209 Ð         225 ß  233 Ú  241 ±  249 ¨
 130 é  138 è  146 Æ  154 Ü  162 ó  170 ¬                              210 Ê         226 Ô  234 Û         250 ·
 131 â  139 ï  147 ô  155 ø  163 ú                                     211 Ë         227 Ò  235 Ù
 132 ä  140 î  148 ö  156 £  164 ñ                                     212 È         228 õ  236 ý  244 ¶
 133 à  141 ì  149 ò  157 Ø  165 Ñ  173 ¡  181 Á  189 ¢                              229 Õ  237 Ý  245 §
 134 å  142 Ä  150 û  158 ×  166 ª  174 «  182 Â  190 ¥  198 ã         214 Í         230 µ  238 ¯  246 ÷
 135 ç  143 Å  151 ù  159 ƒ         175 »  183 À         199 Ã         215 Î         231 þ         247 ¸

If anything on this table shows up as a normal symbol, like a question mark or underscore, it isn't working and you should erase it so the rest of us know not to use it. On some computers these don't show up properly, but at least default to something similar: 158 (times sign -> x), 167 (underlined ° -> °), 213 (undotted i -> i).

One can also enter ANSI characters by holding down alt and typing in a number prefixed with a zero. However, one probably shouldn't, since they don't show up on some machines.

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These are delightful. However, I'd like to remind everyone not to use these in page names (i.e. in URLs that you create), because it is my understanding that they will not generally work. However, if I'm totally wrong, I hope someone will correct me. --Jimbo Wales

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No! No!

ASCII is a 7-bit code. Anything above 127 is not ASCII and will display in some system-dependent character set. The character set above is ISO-8859-1, which will work on most Unix boxes and Windows boxes. ISO also defines some other characters not listed above that Windows does differently. Macintosh machines do not use ISO-8859-1 at all, and many foreign machines use different sets. Wiki passes character entities like é (é) through unmolested, and those work in any browser that complies with HTML 4+, including Macintoshes and foreign machines. These should be used for foreign characters (though not titles as Jimbo points out). -- Lee Daniel Crocker

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Is anyone taking into consideration that "not everyone" keeps their character map (charmap) set to the default? I for one, don't even remember what the default was/is.

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