Easy HTML Character Entities
Rohan June 14th, 2007
There’s often a need to include characters in web pages that are outside the normal range found on the standard keyboard, and HTML Entity Character Lookup is a great new web app that makes this task so much easier. It works by finding the entity based on how it looks. For example typing an asterisk (*) lists all entities that look like bullets (alternatively, you could type bullet to achieve a similar list of matching entities).
Even better is the ability to give characters your own keywords for easier lookup. For example, the tilde symbol (˜) can, obviously, be looked up using the keyword tilde, but I know some people who refer to this character as a squiggle. No problem; simply find the tilde in the list from the lookup, click the + symbol and add your own keyword (in this case squiggle), and voilà, you can now find the tilde entity by typing squiggle into the keyword lookup.
Nice.