This is—I must say—a fine day for erislover. 
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— — the M-dash.
Also
– – the N-dash.
Use the n-dash for “through” as in 1996–2001. Also for connecting hyphenated words.
Lovely, waterj2. Now to knock off the trademark (not registered) and I will be complete.
Also, though not supported by older browsers, let’s not forget
€ € the euro symbol
™ ™ the trademark symbol
√ √ square root symbol
∞ ∞ infinity symbol
∫ ∫ integral symbol
Here’s the complete list of what the HTML 4.0 standard does/will support: http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/demos/ent4_frame.html . I think it includes all unicode characters by number as well, IIRC.
Also, I think «these» are French, not German. The Germans have different quote marks.
Hmm, seems there was some mucking about up in my character sheet above.
" is &**quot; not "e;
¿ is ¿ not &**quest;
And, finally, the reason not having a “;” at the end isn’t strictly necessary is because browsers are generaly very forgiving with HTML. Using the semicolon at the end is certainly well-formed.
I swear to God, those looked fine when I previewed (in the text area at least). vB is wierd. Trying again.
ã ã square root symbol
‡ ‡ infinity symbol
ç ç integral symbol
OK, the board chokes on Unicode. For me at least. YMMV. Grrrr…
I’ve been using the numeric codes. This site says that they are compatible with all browsers.
Don’t know if it’s true or not, but they do have the ™ symbol. 
Thought I would join you in your dismay, waterj. My browser won’t even display the infinity symbol in regular HTML, but my text-editor recognizes it as an acceptable ampersand sequence. sigh Doesn’t seem to matter what I set the encoding to. 
Damn, an integral signal would rule in those messy physics GQs… and then I could tell my calculus limerick!!! Alas, the world remains imperfect no matter how hard I or others try. Strange
Just downloaded IE6.0 and it doesn’t display the characters either.
Another trick that I use to make symbols easier is to go to keyboard settings and set my keyboard to “international”. Now I can get many of the more common symbols by typing ctrl+alt+letter. For example,ctrl+alt+r produces ®. It can’t be used for everything, but it gives me what I need to use the most.
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Thanks! That thing is great! I always wanted to check multiple fonts for particular things, like where you can see what characters are NOT in a particular font (the little boxes). Too many fonts have no “Euro” symbol yet, for example.
What’s up?
What’s up?
What’s up?
&achernar;
Fun-ny.
psst—you’ll note in the OP that &**nbsp; is ignored
¤¤¤For those of you who are still wondering, it won’t work in the “subject” text box. ¤¤¤
WHY???
(nonbreaking space) is one of the more important character entities — it encodes a nonbreaking space, which (on web pages, including web bulletin boards) is the only way to get the correct two spaces between sentences, short of using a {pre} block.
Another important one which is mangled by this software is — (em-dash).
I encoded an em-dash above using [Alt][1][5][1], but characters 128-159 are not valid ISO-8859-x (they’re the Windows-1xxx extension), hence an em-dash done this way will probably not render correctly on Mac or Linux browsers.
I repeat: Give me UBB any day…
“psst?you’ll note in the OP that is ignored :)”
Yeah, I know. Thanks. I knew that it was not turned into a non-breaking space; I wanted to know, though, if it was ignored as in deleted, or ignored as in left in. And I see that if you Preview, it does one, but if you Submit, it does another. This is exactly the kind of thing I don’t want to trip up on when the time comes.
But still ever so much klunkier than remembering the Macintosh option+key codes, which are more intuitive than either of the other two.
You’ll see I used one above by using the &**mdash; syntax, which is HTML syntax. Are you saying it doesn’t properly display on your browser?
Also, I get the em dash with Alt+0151. The zero is crucial.
The only other numerical one I remember is Alt+998, which displays the mu character (µ).
AHunter, Macs be damned! Well, I dunno, really. Never used one. Can you give me an example of how they are more intuitive than mnemonic devices (the ampersand syntax given above)?