Based on the comments I have received, I looked into this a little further. It seems that currently the best practice is to forgo using HTML entities and use the actual UTF-8 character instead. The reasons listed are as follows: UTF-8 encodings are easier to read and edit for those who understand what the character … Read more
Try using %0A in the URL, just like you’ve used %20 instead of the space character.
Use the HTML entity ∞ or ∞.
There is U+1F50D LEFT-POINTING MAGNIFYING GLASS (🔍) and U+1F50E RIGHT-POINTING MAGNIFYING GLASS (🔎). You should use (in HTML) 🔍 or 🔎 They are, however not supported by many fonts (fileformat.info only lists a few fonts as supporting the Codepoint with a proper glyph). Also note that they are outside of the BMP, so some Unicode-capable … Read more
There’s actually seven variants of this: char description unicode html html entity utf-8 · Middle Dot U+00B7 · · C2 B7 · Greek Ano Teleia U+0387 · CE 87 • Bullet U+2022 • • E2 80 A2 ‧ Hyphenation Point U+2027 ₁ E2 80 A7 ∙ Bullet Operator U+2219 ∙ E2 88 99 ● Black … Read more
This is my favourite way of decoding HTML characters. The advantage of using this code is that tags are also preserved. function decodeHtml(html) { var txt = document.createElement(“textarea”); txt.innerHTML = html; return txt.value; } Example: http://jsfiddle.net/k65s3/ Input: Entity: Bad attempt at XSS:<script>alert(‘new\nline?’)</script><br> Output: Entity: Bad attempt at XSS:<script>alert(‘new\nline?’)</script><br>
If you’re inserting text content in your document in a location where text content is expected1, you typically only need to escape the same characters as you would in XML. Inside of an element, this just includes the entity escape ampersand & and the element delimiter less-than and greater-than signs < >: & becomes & < … Read more
Python 3.4+ Use html.unescape(): import html print(html.unescape(‘£682m’)) FYI html.parser.HTMLParser.unescape is deprecated, and was supposed to be removed in 3.5, although it was left in by mistake. It will be removed from the language soon. Python 2.6-3.3 You can use HTMLParser.unescape() from the standard library: For Python 2.6-2.7 it’s in HTMLParser For Python 3 it’s in … Read more
< stands for the less-than sign: < > stands for the greater-than sign: > ≤ stands for the less-than or equals sign: ≤ ≥ stands for the greater-than or equals sign: ≥
You have to use the escaped unicode : Like .breadcrumbs a:before { content: ‘\0000a0’; } More info on : http://www.evotech.net/blog/2007/04/named-html-entities-in-numeric-order/