A complete decimal code table between 0 and 20,999   (Entire lines with only ☘, or 㐁 were removed.)

Subtitle: How to add foreign fonts (and symbols) to an HTML page.

    An introductory word about decimal code and Unicode©: Unicode is a hexadecimal based, copyrighted code for international use. In order to eliminate confusion, it standardizes the code for all characters between any language or discipline. Because it reproduces identically on any browser subscribing to it, it is superior to a decimal code. (Go to www.Unicode.org for more information.) However, for our purposes, this simply reproduced decimal table is convenient to use in many websites with the following important qualification.

    Decimal code numbers between 160 and 255 are poorly supported by most browsers. For other codes, you will need to verify their performance with specific browsers. For commonly used symbols which will work with most browsers, you will find many available by searching the web. For example, see www.BigBaer.com. We hope this table of symbols and letters will be useful to you, but you must verify their usability before you trust them on a website. A simple test is to determine whether or not the codes listed on this table are working on your browser.

    See the explanation at the bottom of this page which tells you how to add code symbols to this table, or foreign fonts to a web page. Also, see how to add foreign language text to a web page when your editor does not support foreign language fonts.

1. Copy the section from 20000 to 20999 in this table.

2. Copy align="center">20 which is common to all identifying numbers in the first column.

3. Open the REPLACE tool. Paste the align="center">20 phrase in the FIND BOX. Assuming that you want to create the series from 21,000 to 21999, write align="center">21 in the REPLACE BOX. Complete the operation and SAVE.

4. Do the same for the individual decimal code numbers. Copy the align="center"> &#20 and paste it in the FIND BOX. Write align="center"> &#21 in the REPLACE BOX. Complete the operation and SAVE.

5. Transfer the new file from your dedicated file to your permanent file.

    It is worth noting that you can add a letter which is not found in the English alphabet within an HTML document. For example, the German name Műller can be written in the HTML document as M&#369;ller. For an interesting illustration, look at the VIEW<SOURCE for the Vietnamese document www.FreeEnglishNow.com/studentinfovietnamese.html on our website www.FreeEnglishNow.com. Just as we have done in this paragraph—and in the sentence "Have fun with code!" at the top of this page—you can use decimal code to replace HTML code when you want to display the actual code to the viewer as it is written in the HTML document. (The word M&#369;ller is actually written [without hyphens] as M&-#-3-8-;-#-3-6-9-;ller because we could not write the initial "&" without it becoming part of a code. However, when we wrote & in code (&-#-3-8-;), followed by #369, we were able to represent the code as it appeared on the HTML code page.)

    You can also use the codes from the table to place incidental symbols in html documents. For example, you can use &#151; to replace -- with —, or use &#7; to add a , and so on. Hint: complete your document using -- rather than writing the code individually for each entry. When the document is complete, use FIND/REPLACE to make the change. Place   --   in the FIND box and   &#151;   in the REPLACE box.

    Did you look at the VIEW<SOURCE for the Vietnamese language document linked above? How did we create all those ữs, ốs, and ểs in the text? The procedure was actually quite simple. Since the original copy was a MICROSOFTWORD.DOC page, we went to FILE and clicked SAVE AS WEB PAGE. When we then opened the HTML page in our HTML Editor, there was a horrific amount of HTML code. We saved one paragraph with all the original code as an example. Then we stripped the rest of the document of its code. That left us with a sentence which looked like:

Ch&#432;&#417;ng trình này có th&#7875; dùng b&#7903;i sinh viên &#273;&#7841;i h&#7885;c, giáo s&#432;, và nh&#7919;ng ng&#432;&#7901;i mu&#7889;n nói ti&#7871;ng Anh thông th&#7841;o.

    All the hard work was done but we wanted to be certain that the font would be reproduced correctly on others' browsers. We isolated the font description at the head of the sample paragraph we saved. We found the <span> notation. It read:

<span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"MS UI Gothic";mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN'> . . . </span>

    We then added the <span> notation at the beginning of each foreign language section, and the </span> at the end. (It could be by individual sentence, paragraph, or the entire document just as long as that section was free of English sentences.)

    The final sentence looked like this in the HTML code document:

<span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"MS UI Gothic";mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN'>Ch&#432;&#417;ng trình này có th&#7875; dùng b&#7903;i sinh viên &#273;&#7841;i h&#7885;c, giáo s&#432;, và nh&#7919;ng ng&#432;&#7901;i mu&#7889;n nói ti&#7871;ng Anh thông th&#7841;o.</span>

    The website page looks like this:

Chương trình này có thể dùng bởi sinh viên đại học, giáo sư, và những người muốn nói tiếng Anh thông thạo.