[Resource] List of HTML Entities

This can come in quite handy for making macros: <a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref" rel="nofollow">http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref</a> I am using it to add some flair around the name of my spells in my powercard macros like this: ⩹ Shield ⩺ Some of the signs and symbols could also be used to designate an attack type like a melee blast:&nbsp;⩛

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that is awesome! now if i can find a way to print it out not on 60+ sheet of paper LOL

I use fileformat.info's Unicode Character Search to find Unicode characters to flavor my macros with. For PowerCards users, Segoe UI Symbol is a solid font choice (good Unicode range, fairly web-safe). I would recommend listing Segoe UI Symbol as the first font choice within font tags that govern areas that contain characters that originate from the latter half of any given Unicode block or are generally younger than 12 years. I use Segoe UI Symbol as my default fallback font for Firefox , which assists with the aforementioned search function and allows me to use higher Unicode characters as names for my token actions and macros in the quick bar.

I like all the different symbols and glyphs. Thanks for sharing. Is it best to copy-paste the actual glyph, or to write the HTML entity code? I think that copy-paste seems to work.

Gold said: I like all the different symbols and glyphs. Thanks for sharing. Is it best to copy-paste the actual glyph, or to write the HTML entity code? I think that copy-paste seems to work. When tricking the query system to get commas, pipes, and braces inside your roll query, you have to use the HTML entity code. When adding a character to the HTML portion of a character sheet, you can use either but it is better to use the code for the non-ASCII character (using the character itself can make your text editor add a BOM to the start of the file, which screws things up for the character sheet system). When adding a character to the CSS portion of a character sheet, you cannot use the entity code (they don't work in CSS), and you can't use the unicode character value (it will make the CSS get thrown out by the security code). Adding the character itself to the CSS can cause the same BOM problems as adding it to the HTML, as well, so be cautious.

Brian, I was actually asking about how to properly use those symbols in a Macro, like in the Global Macros in the game table under the settings icon. Or, how to use the symbols in a Chat message. Not to make a character sheet, query, or CSS.

Well, macros tend to include queries. =P In a macro outside of a query (or for a symbol within a query that the query parser doesn't care about) you can just paste the symbol if you want.