Cheatsheets / Common character entities: Box drawing

Just a selection (find a more complete listing here). We found ourselves switching between references, always having trouble finding that specific character. Find links to more extensive listings and explanation at the bottom, here's what we usually spend to much time on finding ;). Quoting Peter K. Sheerin, it's most safe to use decimal notation, better support. You can count on & and some more being widely supported, when in doubt, don't.

Box drawing

The range from   to ÿ is usually not on your keyboard. We're omitting language specific variations of regular characters like ã and æ in favor of useful symbols and

Character description DecimalDecimal notation of character [?]Check display of decimal notation NamedNamed notation of character [?]Check display of named notation
Non-breaking space        
Inverted exclamation mark ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡
Cent sign ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
Pound sign £ £ £ £
Currency sign ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤
Yen sign ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥
Broken vertical bar ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦
Section sign § § § §
Spacing diaeresis ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨
Copyright sign © © © ©
Feminine ordinal indicator ª ª ª ª
Left-pointing double angle quotation mark « « « «
Not sign ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬
Soft hyphen (discretionary hyphen) ­ ­ ­ ­
Registered trade mark sign ® ® ® ®
Spacing macron (overline) ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯
Degree sign ° ° ° °
Plus-minus sign ± ± ± ±
Superscript digit two ² ² ² ²
Superscript digit three ³ ³ ³ ³
Acute accent (spacing acute) ´ ´ ´ ´
Micro sign µ µ µ µ
Pilcrow/paragraph sign ¶ ¶
Middle dot (or Georgian comma, Greek middle dot) · · · ·
Cedilla (spacing cedilla) ¸ ¸ ¸ ¸
Superscript digit one ¹ ¹ ¹ ¹
Masculine ordinal indicator º º º º
Right-pointing double angle quotation mark » » » »
Fraction one quarter ¼ ¼ ¼ ¼
Fraction one half ½ ½ ½ ½
Fraction three quarters ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾
Inverted question mark ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿

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