Friday, July 25, 2008

Roundup of Links about Charater Encoding and Special Characters and Punctuation

Really its typography and really should be noticed by designers.

Rich Punctuation: How To Do It And Why You Should Bother
http://www.sitepoint.com/print/typographic-punctuation-web

The Definitive Guide to Web Character Encoding
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/guide-web-character-encoding/

This is my favourite, good reference to keep, expecially for macs. Helped me find degree symbols and also fancy quotes, copyright symbol etc etc.
Special characters not on keyboards
http://68kmla.net/wiki/List_of_keyboard_shortcuts