Character codes

Characters and their codes.

Unicode = UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format - 8-bit) is the most common character encoding for the internet and backward-compatible with ASCII

ASCII codes = UTF-8 codes 0-127 (“Basic Latin”) and 128-255 (“Latin-1 Supplement”)

CSS uses the UTF-8 hex code in the content property of the ::before pseudo-element e.g:
p::before {content:'\2022'}
inserts a bullet character before the content of the <p> tag.

HTML/UTF-8 codes Alt codes Links

Different dashes (in different fonts)

	A	T	C	hex	dec	html	x3
box drawings light horizontal (Box Drawing)
	─	─	─	─	─	&HorizontalLine;	───
hyphen-minus (Basic Latin)
	-	-	-	-	-		---
hyphen (General Punctuation)
	‐	‐	‐	‐	‐	&dash;	‐‐‐
figure dash (General Punctuation)
	‒	‒	‒	‒	‒		‒‒‒
en dash (General Punctuation)
	–	–	–	–	–	–	–––
em dash (General Punctuation)
	—	—	—	—	—	—	———
horizontal bar (General Punctuation)
	―	―	―	―	―	&horbar;	―――
minus sign (Mathematical Operators)
	−	−	−	−	−	−	−−−

Some other characters

	A	T	C	hex	dec	html
non-breaking space(Latin-1 Supplement)

soft hyphen(Latin-1 Supplement)

multiplication sign (Latin-1 Supplement)
	×	×	×	×	×	×
division sign (Latin-1 Supplement)
	÷	÷	÷	÷	÷	÷
bullet (General Punctuation)
	•	•	•	•	•	•
white bullet (Geometric Shapes)
	◦	◦	◦	◦	◦
black circle (Geometric Shapes)
	●	●	●	●	●
white circle (Geometric Shapes)
	○	○	○	○	○
black square (Geometric Shapes)
	■	■	■	■	■
white square (Geometric Shapes)
	□	□	□	□	□
black small square (Geometric Shapes)
	▪	▪	▪	▪	▪
white small square (Geometric Shapes)
	▫	▫	▫	▫	▫
medium small white circle (Miscellaneous Symbols)
	⚬	⚬	⚬	⚬	⚬

“soft hyphen” only appears if the word is split/wrapped at the end of a line

A=Arial T=Times C=Consolas

1st 256 HTML/UTF-8/ASCII codes (decimal)

1st 128 are identical to Windows-1252 character encoding with most of the rest being the same

0 to 31 are control characters:
0:(null), 9:(tab), 10:(newline/linefeed/LF), 13:(carriage return/CR), 32:(space), 127:(delete), 160:(non-breaking space), 173:(soft hyphen/SHY)

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60	<	61	=	62	>	63	?	64	@	65	A	66	B	67	C	68	D	69	E
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120	x	121	y	122	z	123	{	124	\|	125	}	126	~	127		128	€	129
130	‚	131	ƒ	132	„	133	…	134	†	135	‡	136	ˆ	137	‰	138	Š	139	‹
140	Œ	141		142	Ž	143		144		145	‘	146	’	147	“	148	”	149	•
150	–	151	—	152	˜	153	™	154	š	155	›	156	œ	157		158	ž	159	Ÿ
160		161	¡	162	¢	163	£	164	¤	165	¥	166	¦	167	§	168	¨	169	©
170	ª	171	«	172	¬	173		174	®	175	¯	176	°	177	±	178	²	179	³
180	´	181	µ	182	¶	183	·	184	¸	185	¹	186	º	187	»	188	¼	189	½
190	¾	191	¿	192	À	193	Á	194	Â	195	Ã	196	Ä	197	Å	198	Æ	199	Ç
200	È	201	É	202	Ê	203	Ë	204	Ì	205	Í	206	Î	207	Ï	208	Ð	209	Ñ
210	Ò	211	Ó	212	Ô	213	Õ	214	Ö	215	×	216	Ø	217	Ù	218	Ú	219	Û
220	Ü	221	Ý	222	Þ	223	ß	224	à	225	á	226	â	227	ã	228	ä	229	å
230	æ	231	ç	232	è	233	é	234	ê	235	ë	236	ì	237	í	238	î	239	ï
240	ð	241	ñ	242	ò	243	ó	244	ô	245	õ	246	ö	247	÷	248	ø	249	ù
250	ú	251	û	252	ü	253	ý	254	þ	255	ÿ

Alt codes

Holding down the Alt key while typing a number (using the keyboard number pad) produces a character when you release the Alt key:

without a leading zero, “Code page 850” is used - see table below.

with a leading zero, “Windows-1252” is used - see table above
(32 - 126 are the same as 032 - 0126)
e.g. Alt+13 = ♪ whereas Alt+013 = (carriage return)

Alt key codes without a leading zero can differ depending on how the application you’re in handles character encoding (system code page, character mapping, legacy fallback, modern interpretation, system settings, etc)
- hence the second, alternative table below

0:(null), 32:(space), 255:(non-breaking space), 240:(either ≡ “identical to” or “soft hyphen”)

	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
0		☺	☻	♥	♦	♣	♠	•	◘	○
10	◙	♂	♀	♪	♫	☼	►	◄	↕	‼
20	¶	§	▬	↨	↑	↓	→	←	∟	↔
30	▲	▼		!	"	#	$	%	&	'
40	(	)	*	+	,	-	.	/	0	1
50	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	:	;
60	<	=	>	?	@	A	B	C	D	E
70	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O
80	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V	W	X	Y
90	Z	[	\	]	^	_	`	a	b	c
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
100	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m
110	n	o	p	q	r	s	t	u	v	w
120	x	y	z	{	\|	}	~	⌂	Ç	ü
130	é	â	ä	à	å	ç	ê	ë	è	ï
140	î	ì	Ä	Å	É	æ	Æ	ô	ö	ò
150	û	ù	ÿ	Ö	Ü	¢	£	¥	₧	ƒ
160	á	í	ó	ú	ñ	Ñ	ª	º	¿	⌐
170	¬	½	¼	¡	«	»	░	▒	▓	│
180	┤	╡	╢	╖	╕	╣	║	╗	╝	╜
190	╛	┐	└	┴	┬	├	─	┼	╞	╟
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
200	╚	╔	╩	╦	╠	═	╬	╧	╨	╤
210	╥	╙	╘	╒	╓	╫	╪	┘	┌	█
220	▄	▌	▐	▀	α	ß	Γ	π	Σ	σ
230	µ	τ	Φ	Θ	Ω	δ	∞	φ	ε	∩
240	≡	±	≥	≤	⌠	⌡	÷	≈	°	∙
250	·	√	ⁿ	²	■

	or

150						ø		Ø	×
160										®
170
180		Á	Â	À	©					¢
190	¥								ã	Ã
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
200								¤	ð	Ð
210	Ê	Ë	È	ı	Í	Î	Ï
220		¦	Ì		Ó		Ô	Ò	õ	Õ
230		þ	Þ	Ú	Û	Ù	ý	Ý	¯	´
240			‗	¾	¶	§		¸		¨
250		¹	³

Boxes to type or copy into

Arial	Times	Consolas

Links

ASCII-codeASCII-code.com

CodeTableCodeTable.net - alt codes, ascii codes, entities in html, etc
• Entities in HTML
• Unicode Group ‘Geometric Shapes’
• Unicode Group ‘Miscellaneous Symbols’

W3SchoolsW3Schools - web developer site
• HTML Character Sets
• HTML ASCII Reference
• HTML Unicode (UTF-8) Reference

WikipediaAlt code in Windows
ASCII character set
Code page 850 character set (Alt+without leading zero)
Windows-1252 codepage layout (Alt+with leading zero)

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50	2	51	3	52	4	53	5	54	6	55	7	56	8	57	9	58	:	59	;
60	<	61	=	62	>	63	?	64	@	65	A	66	B	67	C	68	D	69	E
70	F	71	G	72	H	73	I	74	J	75	K	76	L	77	M	78	N	79	O
80	P	81	Q	82	R	83	S	84	T	85	U	86	V	87	W	88	X	89	Y
90	Z	91	[	92	\	93	]	94	^	95	_	96	`	97	a	98	b	99	c
100	d	101	e	102	f	103	g	104	h	105	i	106	j	107	k	108	l	109	m
110	n	111	o	112	p	113	q	114	r	115	s	116	t	117	u	118	v	119	w
120	x	121	y	122	z	123	{	124	\|	125	}	126	~	127		128	€	129
130	‚	131	ƒ	132	„	133	…	134	†	135	‡	136	ˆ	137	‰	138	Š	139	‹
140	Œ	141		142	Ž	143		144		145	‘	146	’	147	“	148	”	149	•
150	–	151	—	152	˜	153	™	154	š	155	›	156	œ	157		158	ž	159	Ÿ
160		161	¡	162	¢	163	£	164	¤	165	¥	166	¦	167	§	168	¨	169	©
170	ª	171	«	172	¬	173		174	®	175	¯	176	°	177	±	178	²	179	³
180	´	181	µ	182	¶	183	·	184	¸	185	¹	186	º	187	»	188	¼	189	½
190	¾	191	¿	192	À	193	Á	194	Â	195	Ã	196	Ä	197	Å	198	Æ	199	Ç
200	È	201	É	202	Ê	203	Ë	204	Ì	205	Í	206	Î	207	Ï	208	Ð	209	Ñ
210	Ò	211	Ó	212	Ô	213	Õ	214	Ö	215	×	216	Ø	217	Ù	218	Ú	219	Û
220	Ü	221	Ý	222	Þ	223	ß	224	à	225	á	226	â	227	ã	228	ä	229	å
230	æ	231	ç	232	è	233	é	234	ê	235	ë	236	ì	237	í	238	î	239	ï
240	ð	241	ñ	242	ò	243	ó	244	ô	245	õ	246	ö	247	÷	248	ø	249	ù
250	ú	251	û	252	ü	253	ý	254	þ	255	ÿ

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50	2	51	3	52	4	53	5	54	6	55	7	56	8	57	9	58	:	59	;
60	<	61	=	62	>	63	?	64	@	65	A	66	B	67	C	68	D	69	E
70	F	71	G	72	H	73	I	74	J	75	K	76	L	77	M	78	N	79	O
80	P	81	Q	82	R	83	S	84	T	85	U	86	V	87	W	88	X	89	Y
90	Z	91	[	92	\	93	]	94	^	95	_	96	`	97	a	98	b	99	c
100	d	101	e	102	f	103	g	104	h	105	i	106	j	107	k	108	l	109	m
110	n	111	o	112	p	113	q	114	r	115	s	116	t	117	u	118	v	119	w
120	x	121	y	122	z	123	{	124	\|	125	}	126	~	127		128	€	129
130	‚	131	ƒ	132	„	133	…	134	†	135	‡	136	ˆ	137	‰	138	Š	139	‹
140	Œ	141		142	Ž	143		144		145	‘	146	’	147	“	148	”	149	•
150	–	151	—	152	˜	153	™	154	š	155	›	156	œ	157		158	ž	159	Ÿ
160		161	¡	162	¢	163	£	164	¤	165	¥	166	¦	167	§	168	¨	169	©
170	ª	171	«	172	¬	173		174	®	175	¯	176	°	177	±	178	²	179	³
180	´	181	µ	182	¶	183	·	184	¸	185	¹	186	º	187	»	188	¼	189	½
190	¾	191	¿	192	À	193	Á	194	Â	195	Ã	196	Ä	197	Å	198	Æ	199	Ç
200	È	201	É	202	Ê	203	Ë	204	Ì	205	Í	206	Î	207	Ï	208	Ð	209	Ñ
210	Ò	211	Ó	212	Ô	213	Õ	214	Ö	215	×	216	Ø	217	Ù	218	Ú	219	Û
220	Ü	221	Ý	222	Þ	223	ß	224	à	225	á	226	â	227	ã	228	ä	229	å
230	æ	231	ç	232	è	233	é	234	ê	235	ë	236	ì	237	í	238	î	239	ï
240	ð	241	ñ	242	ò	243	ó	244	ô	245	õ	246	ö	247	÷	248	ø	249	ù
250	ú	251	û	252	ü	253	ý	254	þ	255	ÿ

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90	Z	91	[	92	\	93	]	94	^	95	_	96	`	97	a	98	b	99	c
100	d	101	e	102	f	103	g	104	h	105	i	106	j	107	k	108	l	109	m
110	n	111	o	112	p	113	q	114	r	115	s	116	t	117	u	118	v	119	w
120	x	121	y	122	z	123	{	124	\|	125	}	126	~	127		128	€	129
130	‚	131	ƒ	132	„	133	…	134	†	135	‡	136	ˆ	137	‰	138	Š	139	‹
140	Œ	141		142	Ž	143		144		145	‘	146	’	147	“	148	”	149	•
150	–	151	—	152	˜	153	™	154	š	155	›	156	œ	157		158	ž	159	Ÿ
160		161	¡	162	¢	163	£	164	¤	165	¥	166	¦	167	§	168	¨	169	©
170	ª	171	«	172	¬	173		174	®	175	¯	176	°	177	±	178	²	179	³
180	´	181	µ	182	¶	183	·	184	¸	185	¹	186	º	187	»	188	¼	189	½
190	¾	191	¿	192	À	193	Á	194	Â	195	Ã	196	Ä	197	Å	198	Æ	199	Ç
200	È	201	É	202	Ê	203	Ë	204	Ì	205	Í	206	Î	207	Ï	208	Ð	209	Ñ
210	Ò	211	Ó	212	Ô	213	Õ	214	Ö	215	×	216	Ø	217	Ù	218	Ú	219	Û
220	Ü	221	Ý	222	Þ	223	ß	224	à	225	á	226	â	227	ã	228	ä	229	å
230	æ	231	ç	232	è	233	é	234	ê	235	ë	236	ì	237	í	238	î	239	ï
240	ð	241	ñ	242	ò	243	ó	244	ô	245	õ	246	ö	247	÷	248	ø	249	ù
250	ú	251	û	252	ü	253	ý	254	þ	255	ÿ