Used in French, Polish, Portuguese, and Turkish. Examples: Ă ă Ğ ğ.Ĭedilla (sih-DIL-uh) A tiny curved symbol, like a backward 'c,' placed at the bottom (or top) of a letter to indicate a different pronunciation.

Examples: Á á Ć ć Ǵ ǵ É é Ḱ ḱ Í í Ĺ ĺ Ń ń Ŕ ŕ Ś ś Ý ý Ź ź.īreve (BREEV) A curved mark with the open side up that is placed over a vowel or other letter, such as an 'A' or 'G.' Used in Latin, Romanian, Turkish, and Latinized Bulgarian. Used in Czech, French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Polish, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Slovakian, Spanish, and Latinized Macedonian. Slants from upper right down to lower left. Print it, cut it out, and tape to your monitor when you're editing HTML files!įind more information about special characters at Alan Wood's Unicode Resources.įollowing the Name and Description section below is a more comprehensive List of HTML Special Characters.Īcute accent (uh-KYOOT ak-sent) A diagonal mark, placed over a letter to represent a particular sound. See the convenient chart for folk dance teachers, Selected HTML Special Characters, a printable cheat sheet of specially selected special characters showing the HTML codes for website design. As mandated by the European Union, Microsoft released a font update to correct this deficiency in Windows XP in early 2007, soon after Romania joined the European Union.' The lack of support for the comma diacritics has been corrected in current versions of major operating systems: Windows Vista or newer, Linux distributions after 2005, and currently supported Mac OS versions. This state of affairs is due to an initial lack of glyph standardization, compounded by the lack of computer font support for the comma-below variants. Many printed and online texts still incorrectly use 's with cedilla' and 't with cedilla'. 'Although the Romanian Academy standard mandates the comma-below variants for the sounds /sh/ and /ts/, the cedilla variants are still widely used. In addition, there is another special case having to do with the Romanian language. We have been using the Latinica rather than the phonetic which is subject to so many interpretations (such as dajčovo instead of dajchovo, daychovo, or daichovo pajduško instead of pajdushko or paidushko and šopsko instead of shopsko).' Actually, Bulgarian is akin to Macedonian as Serbian is akin to Croatian. The latest breakthrough toward this consistency is in Bulgarian.

As to the spelling, there is a good tendency to spell Balkan dances in the Latin ('Latinica') alphabet of the Serbo-Croatian language. 'It is gratifying to note a great improvement in the spelling and pronunciation of Balkan dance names and the recent standardization of these often difficult foreign words. Unique special characters have 'diacritical marks' that give Latin alphabets new letters and sounds for various languages.

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