EDIT: all of my examples have been converted. You can no longer see the code I've used except in my "template" example. Instead of code, you only see the character I was writing... EDIT2: now my post is REALLY messed up with all of the code conversions. email me if you can't figure out the HTML UTF-8 and copying and pasting doesn't work.
A good way to do it without having to memorize anything is to simply look it up on wikipedia. (or using a character map)
For example a common myspace symbol is the section sign: § . You could try copying and pasting an example of that into your myspace name directly, or, try this with our section sign example: Wikipedia tells us that corresponds to U+00A7. Html supports (to some degree) using UTF-8 character encodings, in this format :
nnnn;
where "nnnn", in this case, is "00A7". So, for the section sign, we could write:
§
Which would result in the section sign being displayed. (in addition, HTML also supports using
§
To display the same thing, however this doesn't apply to all utf-8 characters.
Another list of html character codes can be found here: http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm... However, I would use the format I provided, nnnn; instead of the &#nnnn; the provide, however you can experiment with both (they supposedly do the same thing, however, in practice, this depends on the HTML DOCTYPE.)
So, back to the lightning bolt... is there a utf-8 character for that? ... hmm, the best I could find in my 5 second search was:
٦
Which is KINDA like a lightning bolt... I suppose.
Anyway, here's a complete utf-8 character table, for your reference: http://www.utf8-chartable.de/
(you can click "Next page (U+0100 ... U+01FF) ⇒", mind you, to see more characters.)
Make sure you replace
U+0000
or whatever, with
�
in that example.
Did that help you at all? If you need more help, feel free to email me at any time at zjblabs@zjblabs.co.cc
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