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Learning Report #2:

Typing Using Special Characters:

What I have Learned:

Most browsers use the ISO-8859-1 default character set. The first 128 characters are the original ASCII character-set. This contains the the numbers 0-9, the uppercase and lowercase English alphabet, and some special characters. The higher part of ISO-8859-1 contains the characters used in Western European countries and some commonly used special characters. Entities are used to implement reserved characters or to express characters that cannot easily be entered with the keyboard.

Some characters are reserved in HTML and XHTML. For insance, you cannot use a greater than or less than sign within your text because the browser could mistake them for markup.

Information from: W3 Schools

Why Important: (included with Implication:)

This is very important to know for my website, and for my learning reports. Last week I made some errors and I didn't know how to fix them. Then I finally figured it out, and that gave me the idea to do learning report #2 on using special characters. Last week I typed in "< img >", just how it looks; to explain the image tag. But this caused an error. I have to type it in like "&lt;img &gt; in order for the browsers to recognize the typing of special characters.

If I wanted to say a price of renting a movie I would need to use the the cents sign, and wanted to insert a ¢ sign --I would type it like &cent;. This gives me the ¢ sign.

If I wanted to show my site or products were copyrighted, and wanted to insert the © sign, I would need to type it like &copy; and this gives me the © sign.

There are so many uses for using special characters. If I was typing something in spanish and wanted to use the inverted exclaimation mark ( ¡ ), I would type &iexcl; into the code, and the browser reads the &iexcl; as a "¡" . Again, if I wanted to use the inverted question-mark ( ¿ ) I would type &iquest; into the code, and the browser gives me a "¿" into the text. Man, this is fun. To you it looks like i'm just typing a simple & sign, but I haven't typed a single-simple "&" sign. haha.

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