Virtually every article written here at Perishable Press requires at least one or two “special” characters. Some of these characters — such as quotation marks, hyphens, and dashes — are very common, while others — such as the copyright symbol, bullet, and arrow — happen less frequently. As a blogger, I find myself repeatedly using a select handful of very common special characters. Very rarely do I ever find myself blogging a latin “Ä” (i.e., capital letter “A” with a diaeresis). To save time and effort, I need a quick reference that targets only the characters I find useful as a blogger. With that in mind, I assembled the following table of essential Unicode (UTF-8 encoded) characters ¹ for bloggers:

Essential Unicode Character Reference for Bloggers

¹ To ensure proper display of the Unicode characters presented below, use this meta declaration in the head of your document:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>

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