Well, I sent you the url for natural-innovations.com, which only has a partial list of special characters. And now my wife was just asking about special Polish letters ( such as Ł and ł ). So I cranked out this quick & dirty code to display the characters between 201 and 1000. Something messes up the alignment every so often, but the output is still very legible. It looks like the entire Greek alphabet (upper & lower case) is in the 900 range. Play around with the range in the for loop to get other characters.
Code:
<html>
<body>
<h1>Special characters</h1>
<font face = "courier">
<script language="JavaScript">
var j = 0
for (var i = 201; i <= 1000; i++)
{
document.write(i.toString() + ' = &#' + i + '; ');
if (++j == 5)
{
document.write("<br>");
j = 0;
}
}
</script>
</font>
<h2>End of list</h2>
</body>
</html>
I should warn you that different browsers (and versions of a browser) are going to give you different results. So, if you plan to make your page available to a wide audience it may display differently depending upon the user's browser.
I wrote that code at work on a Win2K workstation running IE5.0. I ran it at home on some of our systems running the following OS & browser combinations, although I'm not sure just much of a role the OS had in the results.
NT4.0 & IE5.5
NT4.0 & NN4.6
NT4.0 & NN7.1
Win2k & IE6.0
Win2K & NN7.1
XP & IE6.0
We have NN6.0 (or maybe NN6.1) running on another Win2K system. I didn't try that combination, but can if you want me to.
NN4.6 only displayed characters for the first few dozen values.
IE5.5 probably displayed about the same number of characters as IE5.0 did on my system at work. However, I did notice that the columns were much straighter than with IE5.0. Probably something to do with the font sets on the 2 systems.
IE6.0 displayed characters for a few more (probable several dozen) of the values than IE5.5.
NN7.1 displayed characters for a lot more of the values than IE6.0. Many of them seemed much larger and bolder than the other characters even though the font was the same.
Things were a little slow yesterday, so I started modifying the code that I posted earlier. The attached web page will show you every character that your browser is capable of displaying.
The output is a little more managable. You can individually display each block range, so if you are only looking for Thai characters or math symbols, etc., that is all you will get.
Greek letter Lambda
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