In 2022 – use ES6 Template Literals for this task. If you need IE11 Support – use a transpiler. let a = `something something`; Template Literals are fast, powerful, and produce cleaner code. If you need IE11 support and you don’t have transpiler, stay strong 💪 and use \xa0 – it is a NO-BREAK SPACE … Read more
The Big and small black triangles facing the 4 directions can be represented thus: ▲ ▲ ▴ ▴ ▶ ▶ ▸ ▸ ► ► ▼ ▼ ▾ ▾ ◀ ◀ ◂ ◂ ◄ ◄
You could put it in a <span> with a bigger font but the same line-height. You can also try BLACK CIRCLE ● ●. I don’t know how many platforms that will work on, though.
You can search it on the individual character at fileformat.info. Enter # as search string and the 1st hit will lead you to U+0023. Scroll a bit down to the 2nd table, Encodings, you’ll see under each the following entries: HTML Entity (decimal) # HTML Entity (hex) #
× Unicode: U+00D7 MULTIPLICATION SIGN HTML: ×, × CSS: \00d7 See the Wikipedia article about the multiplication sign: In mathematics, the symbol × (read as times or multiplied by) is primarily used to denote the […] Geometric dimension of an object, such as noting that a room is 10×12 feet in area. Depending on the … Read more
As to the “vice versa” (which I needed myself, leading me to find this question, which didn’t help, and subsequently another site which had the answer): u’some string’.encode(‘ascii’, ‘xmlcharrefreplace’) will return a plain string with any non-ascii characters turned into XML (HTML) entities.
This is much easier than you’re making it. The text node will not have the literal string “ ” in it, it’ll have have the corresponding character with code 160. function replaceNbsps(str) { var re = new RegExp(String.fromCharCode(160), “g”); return str.replace(re, ” “); } textNode.nodeValue = replaceNbsps(textNode.nodeValue); UPDATE Even easier: textNode.nodeValue = textNode.nodeValue.replace(/\u00a0/g, ” “);
Facelets is a XML based view technology. XML has only five predefined entities. The is not among them. It works only when used in plain HTML or in legacy JSP (note: it doesn’t work in JSPX as that’s also XML based!). To fix this, you either need to declare the entity yourself in the … Read more
  is a regular space (by its numeric ASCII value).
After some more searching, I myself have found the entity. The code for it is ⓘ, and it looks like this: ⓘ