UTF 8 Frequently Used Glyphs

A browser reference in the column «No-show» indicates that the glyph does not appear in (more or less) current versions of that browser (as observed by me). This obviously depends on the default character set the browser use. However, I'm try to keep my browsers set-up at default values, so a no-show indicates that many users of that browser will not see the glyph. I currently test with Firefox, MSIE and Opera on Microsoft Windows XP.

Depreciated usages are shown in parenthesises in the «Usage» column.

Locale Usage NCR (decimal) CER No-show
- (It's ok) '    
- It’s ok ’    
- (9" nails) " "  
- 9″ nails ″ ″  
- ("quote") " "  
Norwegian «quote» «  » « »  
Norwegian ‹quote› ‹ ›    
Swedish »quote» «  « » »  
Swedish ”quote” ” ”    
Danish »quote« »  « » «  
French « quote » «  » « »  
British English ‘quote’ ‘ ’    
- (‚quote‛) ‚ ‚    
US English “quote” “ ”    
- („quote‟) „ ‟   MSIE
German „quote” „ ”    
- 3′46″ ′ ″ ′ ″  
- 3′46‴ ′ ‴   MSIE
- 3′46⁗ ′ ⁗   Firefox, MSIE
- ‵prime′ ‵ ′    
- ‶prime″ ‶ ″   MSIE
- ‷prime‴ ‷ ‷   MSIE
Table 1: Quotes, apostrophes and primes

Links about quotes: Torbjørn Eng, Markus Kuhn, Rolf Lindgren, David A. Wheeler.

Example Usage NCR (decimal) tag/CER No-show
word break &#8203; <wbr>  
n.b.h. &#8209;    
  &#8211; &ndash;  
  &#8212; &mdash;  
  &#8227;    
  &#8230; &hellip;  
  &#8364; &euro;  
  &#8482; &trade;  
  &#8594; &rarr;  
  &#8658; &rArr;  
  &#8680;    
  &#8734; &infin;  
  &#8776; &asymp;  
  &#8800; &ne;  
Table 2: Other very useful glyphs

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