Commonly used Unicode symbols

Unicode provides many special characters that you can use within an HTML document. If you use an international keyboard or Windows charmap to type these characters in the ASCII 128-255 range, chances are that people using a different type of computer than yours will see the wrong characters display. So it is better to use Unicode instead.

For example, try this in your HTML code:

I like to eat pâté de foie gras.

No matter what computer you use, your browser will display this as:

I like to eat pâté de foie gras.

Here are some more Unicode characters that you can use. They are shown in both monospace and regular font.

Unicode	Result	Unicode	Result
 	Non-breaking space	ä	ä            ä
¡	¡            ¡	è	è            è
¿	¿            ¿	é	é            é
¢	¢            ¢	ê	ê            ê
£	£            £	ë	ë            ë
"	"            "	ì	ì            ì
¥	¥            ¥	í	í            í
©	©            ©	î	î            î
®	®            ®	ï	ï            ï
°	°            °	ò	ò            ò
±	±            ±	ó	ó            ó
¹	¹            ¹	ô	ô            ô
²	²            ²	ö	ö            ö
³	³            ³	ù	ù            ù
µ	µ            µ	ú	ú            ú
¶	¶            ¶	û	û            û
¼	¼            ¼	ü	ü            ü
½	½            ½	æ	æ            æ
¾	¾            ¾	ã	ã            ã
×	×            ×	å	å            å
÷	÷            ÷	ç	ç            ç
&	&            &	ð	ð            ð
&lt;	<            <	&ntilde;	ñ            ñ
&gt;	>            >	&oslash;	ø            ø
&laquo;	«            «	&otilde;	õ            õ
&raquo;	»            »	&thorn;	þ            þ
&agrave;	à            à	&yacute;	ý            ý
&aacute;	á            á	&yuml;	ÿ            ÿ
&acirc;	â            â

There are many more Unicode symbols. This is just a partial list of the ones that I have found the most useful.

ASCII table (32 to 126)

Welcome to ASCII and Unicode Tables!

I created this blog because I was getting tired of wasting time finding ASCII and Unicode tables for different applications. I hope to make this a centralized resource for this sort of information, and I hope you will find it useful as well.

This first post is a standard ASCII table, showing the visible characters (decimal 32 through 126).

Please use the Comments option to leave feedback, and feel free to request more specific tables. I plan to post variations on ASCII for special characters (decimal 128 through 255) as well as Unicode.

Decimal	Hexadecimal	Character	Decimal	Hexadecimal	Character
32	20	space	80	50	P
33	21	!	81	51	Q
34	22	"	82	52	R
35	23	#	83	53	S
36	24	$	84	54	T
37	25	%	85	55	U
38	26	&	86	56	V
39	27	'	87	57	W
40	28	(	88	58	X
41	29	)	89	59	Y
42	2A	*	90	5A	Z
43	2B	+	91	5B	[
44	2C	,	92	5C	\
45	2D	-	93	5D	]
46	2E	.	94	5E	^
47	2F	/	95	5F	_
48	30	0	96	60	`
49	31	1	97	61	a
50	32	2	98	62	b
51	33	3	99	63	c
52	34	4	100	64	d
53	35	5	101	65	e
54	36	6	102	66	f
55	37	7	103	67	g
56	38	8	104	68	h
57	39	9	105	69	i
58	3A	:	106	6A	j
59	3B	;	107	6B	k
60	3C	<	108	6C	l
61	3D	=	109	6D	m
62	3E	>	110	6E	n
63	3F	?	111	6F	o
64	40	@	112	70	p
65	41	A	113	71	q
66	42	B	114	72	r
67	43	C	115	73	s
68	44	D	116	74	t
69	45	E	117	75	u
70	46	F	118	76	v
71	47	G	119	77	w
72	48	H	120	78	x
73	49	I	121	79	y
74	4A	J	122	7A	z
75	4B	K	123	7B	{
76	4C	L	124	7C	|
77	4D	M	125	7D	}
78	4E	N	126	7E	~
79	4F	O

Notes:

• Values not listed are control characters that may be system-dependent. Common decimal values include 9 (tab), 10 (linefeed), 13 (carriage return), 27 (escape), and 127 (delete).
  
• Symbols and special characters (such as foreign accents) are represented in the range 128 to 255. Since these values vary from one platform to another, they should be used only on applications. For web pages, always use Unicode.
  
• The original ASCII specification did not define any values above decimal 127 because the 8th bit was used as a parity bit. This provided a checksum for data transmitted across noisy communication channels.