WHAT YOU CAN TYPE:

All Latin1 characters display and print as expected.
This group includes all normal "English - US" keyboard characters.
(The soft hyphen does not show a result if typed alone, but this is the intended behavior.)

Three normal keyboard characters have special meanings in html, and should always be coded.
These three are:

& for which you can type & to display the character.
< for which you type &lt; to display the character.
> for which you type &gt; to display the character.

A fourth normal keyboard character, ", can have special meaning.
It may normally be simply typed in text, but you may prefer to code it as &quot; to avoid those rare instances when it "misbehaves."

If you are using a wordprocessor that "autocorrects" to put things like "curly quotes" in, the characters used will probably be in the ASCII range between 130 and 159. These characters are not defined in the html standard, but mudcat displays them (generally) as you expect. If I select an area in a thread and "print selection," two of these "extended ASCII" characters, the upper and lower case "Z caron" do not print correctly. If I copy the selection and paste it into Word first, all of these characters print as displayed.

In the Symbol character set, a number of characters fail to display. These are generally math symbols, for which I would not forsee much use on mudcat. There are "look-alikes" for most of the useful ones elsewhere in the character sets.

I have listed only the "decimal" code, and the codename (name entity) below.

John