![unicode char ref wiki unicode char ref wiki](https://live.staticflickr.com/3411/3186863237_4a85047e10_n.jpg)
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☉ (this should be a circle with a dot inside) into the edit box if it is still there after pressing Preview, the project uses UTF-8. To find out which character set applies in a project, copy e.g.
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Note that Special:Export, at least within the English Wikipedia, exports using UTF-8 even though the database is encoded in ISO 8859-1.
#Unicode char ref wiki code#
the most common special characters, such as é, are in the character set, so code like é, although allowed, is not needed.The edit box shows the code, the webpage the character unavailable characters which are copied into the edit box are first displayed as character, and automatically converted to their decimal codes on Preview or Save. for the character € the named character reference € and the decimal character reference € and the hexadecimal character reference €. special characters that are not available in the limited character set are stored in the form of a multi-character code there are usually two or three equivalent representations, e.g.ISO-8859-1 - The Wikipedias in English, Dutch, Danish, and Swedish.Each MediaWiki project uses either of the following two systems for character encoding: