The wonderful world of Unicode provides us with a lot of characters with which we can do good typography even in limited and clumsy environments, fi. social media editors. But it is a pain to look them up in character tables if we do not want to learn the code points by heart. Therefore I made a table with a selection of the most important for an author writing in German and English. Remark that I employ a German keyboard layout, so I do not need the “umlauts” (vowel mutation) äÄöÖüÜ and the ß.
The spaces are wrapped in <pre> tags, otherwise HTML renderers would omit them.
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Quotes | „“ | ‚‘ | «» | ‹› | “” | ‘’ | ||||||||||||
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Dashes | – | — | ⸺ | ⸻ | 〜 | 〰 | ||||||||||||
Spaces | zero witdh space | soft hyphen | ||||||||||||||||
Germanic | å | Å | æ | Æ | ð | Ð | ë | ø | Ø | þ | Þ | |||||||
Romanic | ç | Ç | ñ | Ñ | ||||||||||||||
Math | ∞ | ≠ | ≈ | ≤ | ≥ | ∑ | ∆ | ‰ | ± | × | ||||||||
Fractions | ½ | ⅓ | ⅔ | ¼ | ¾ | ⅕ | ⅖ | ⅗ | ⅘ | ⅙ | ⅚ | ⅐ | ⅛ | ⅜ | ⅝ | ⅞ | ⅑ | ⅒ |
Biology | ♀ | ♂ | ☠ | ⚭ | 🦋 | 🕱 | 👀 | |||||||||||
Arrows | ← | ↑ | → | ↓ | ↕ | ↔ | ||||||||||||
Miscellaneous | © | † | • | … | ₤ | № | ⚠ | 📷 | 📹 | 🏺 | ||||||||
Chess | ♔ | ♕ | ♖ | ♗ | ♘ | ♙ | ♚ | ♛ | ♜ | ♝ | ♞ | ♟ |