HOWTO Write Unicode Symbols

For Mr. Isang Kilong Bigas Miktots.



-- Screenshot of Unicode Symbols at Wikipedia

You're wondering how those other bloggers write some of the symbols you see above. You're banging your head on the wall because you can't find those symbols anywhere in your keyboard. Give yourself some slack because I'm going to teach you how. :)

First, you want to know how to write ☺ because you want to let the world know how happy your are. From the figure above you will notice that the smiley is on row 2630 and on column A. For you to write a smiley you should write (make sure you are in Edit Html Mode):

☺

The above text will turn into a ☺ when you publish your post. It follows this format:

&#xnnnm;

Where nnnm is the Unicode of the symbol. The nnn is the first three numbers of row (263 from 2630 for the smiley) and m is the number of the column (A for the smiley). The x should always be the lowercase of the letter X.

Now that you know how to do it, you want to write ♥ because you want to let the world know how much you love efrenefren for teaching you how to write Unicode Symbols. You can do that by writing:

♥

♥♥♥ Don't forget the x. You will get a different symbol if you forget the x. Go and show the whole world your new ability. :)

Thanks to XML and HTML character entity references.

Cross-posted from HOWTO: efren.