The original question here was about making less frequently used characters in Windows. Most unusual Windows characters can be found, at least in recent versions of Word, by entering "keyboard" in the search box in Word|Help. The related question of how to show similarly obscure characters in HTML has crept in, however.

While there are numerous websites that give the numerical and "character entity names" for extended characters, it is to be noted that some damfoolidjet actually once posted many of them right here on the 'cat.

At HTML test thread 2 and the immediately following dozen or so posts, you'll find a summary of some of the provisions of ISO HTML 4.0 followed by a posting of all, or nearly all of the "named entity" characters given by the HTML specification. Here you can see for yourself that most of them actually do work (or don't, depending on your browser and fonts) at mudcat.

(Although HTML 4.0 is now sort of obsolete, the characters are generally unchanged.)

This is for the curious only, and will not be on our next quiz.

Note that there are a few errors in the posting, but you'll find them if/when you try to use one of the few characters where they occur.

Please by kind and confine your browsing to the cited dozen posts. This thread also may serve as a reminder of how much better things are since the "HTML Practice" thread concept appeared, and embarrassing and very ancient "learning" posts can be expected to disappear and not haunt one eternally.

John