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Paul Magnussen <> writes:

> Is there an HTML character entity reference for the Polish letter that
> looks like a lower-case "l" crossed through, please?
>
> I can't seem to find it.

There isn't one, in so far as "character entity reference" refers to the
limited set of "named" characters. Instead, you can use a numeric
character reference like &#x142; or (if you can have your document
served with an encoding that includes it) you can just enter the
character into the page like any other.

The real problem is often not how to enter the character into a document,
but whether it will be shown by a browser. In this case the character
is not particularly obscure, so I think you will be fine.

--
Ben.

2012-01-15 3:21, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> Paul Magnussen<> writes:
>
>> Is there an HTML character entity reference for the Polish letter that
>> looks like a lower-case "l" crossed through, please?
>>
>> I can't seem to find it.
>
> There isn't one, in so far as "character entity reference" refers to the
> limited set of "named" characters.

Unfortunately, there is now, if it suffices for existence to be present
in HTML5 drafts and implemented in a major browser. I mention this only
to warn about them - they add no expressive power, they are confusingly
something between half-mnemonic and completely cryptic, and they
introduce browser dependency for no good reason. (And they call them
“named character references” to declare their formal independence of
SGML and XML.)

I’m afraid the idea looks sufficiently high-tech and cool to lure
authors into writing, say, “Wa&lstrok;&eogon;sa” and getting high at
seeing a name appearing properly (Wałęsa) on their up-to-date Firefox,
without realizing that most users will see literally “Wa&lstrok;&eogon;sa”.

> Instead, you can use a numeric
> character reference like &#x142; or (if you can have your document
> served with an encoding that includes it) you can just enter the
> character into the page like any other.

Right. And either way, http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/#links is of
great help in identifying the Unicode number of the character. The
number is useful both for determining the character reference to be used
and for entering the character itself e.g. via Character Map in Windows
or via some key combination.

In this case, the character is in the Latin Extended-A block, which
covers most of Latin letters used in European languages beyond the very
basic A to Z (which are in Basic Latin) and the extensions needed for
Northern and Western European languages (Latin-1 Supplement). That is,
Latin Extended-A was designed to cover the additional letters used in
Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Maltese etc. etc.

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