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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
I went to that first link (the unicode character search). It was cool. I entered ellipsis and em dash in the query box and it gave me all these U+2012 or whatever. What are all those U numbers for?
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The U+#### are the unique UTF-16 codes for the symbol. You can safely ignore all of those (although it makes it easier to find the character if you wanted to use the built in Character Map in Windows (See Image 3)).
If you look at the first image I attached, make sure that you have the HTML Entities box activated. This makes FileFormat show you the actual copy/pastable character on the right side (marked in Image 2).
First Column: Long description of letter (this is why there are multiple duplicates on the page)
Second Column: Unique UTF-16 number
Third Column: (Same as first column for the most part)
Fourth Column: The HTML character.
- I personally make my font size HUGE on that page so I can see the characters much easier than the character map.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
And thanks for the Greek alphabet.
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No problem. There are also very nice lists of characters with accents. I constantly keep tabs open in Firefox for the Wikipedia pages for
Macron,
Grave accent,
Acute accent,
Diaresis,
Circumflex,
Caron,
Dagger.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Lastly. How do I do the multiple quote thing (in a way that keeps things straight)? And are people going to know I wrote them if I do three or four quotes in one post? (I'm all for keeping the thread cleaner--and I get tired of seeing my picture so much!)Thanks man.
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Every time I click quote, I just copy/paste the code generated from MobileRead into a text editor (I use Notepad++). I then split the posts manually, the code is quite easy.
You can see that MobileRead sticks the post between a QUOTE, and a /QUOTE tag:
Code:
[
QUOTE=USERNAME;#######]First First First First First First.
Second Second Second Second.
Third Third Third Third Third.[/QUOTE]
The first quote tag has the user who said the quote (marked in
red), and the post # (marked in
blue). The Red/Blue sections are optional, but I prefer to keep them in tact when quoting a user multiple times.
I copy/paste the opening tag when splitting up a user's post for much more easy readability, and remember to always put the closing QUOTE tag (
light blue) at the end (THIS IS A VERY EASY STEP TO FORGET).
If I just wanted to comment on the user's first and third paragraphs:
Code:
[
QUOTE=USERNAME;#######]First First First First First First.[/QUOTE]
My comments to the first paragraph belong here.
[
QUOTE=USERNAME;#######]Third Third Third Third Third.[/QUOTE]
My comments to the third paragraph belong here.
From Notepad++, I type out my posts, and then copy/paste back in to the box on MobileRead. I then make sure to PREVIEW POST (very important).
You will most likely mess up many times before getting it down pat, but I have been doing it that way on forums for years (I have lost too many great posts to the abyss).
