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Asked: 2026-05-20T08:50:42+00:00

Here’s a link I found, which even has a character I need to play

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Here’s a link I found, which even has a character I need to play with for other projects of mine.

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2446/index.htm

There is a box with the Title of: “Encodings” on that page. And I am wondering about some of the rows.

I obviously need a course on this sort of thing, but I’m wondering what the difference is between “HTML Entity (decimal)” and “HTML Entity (hex)”.

The funny thing is, which confuses me, I throw those characters on a web page, and they display fine. But I haven’t specified any UTF-8 encoding in the php page.

<?php
$string1 = '&#x2446;';
$string2 = '&#9286;';

echo $string1;
echo '<br>';
echo $string2;
?>

Does the browser know how to display both automatically?
And to make it weirder, I can only see those characters on my Mac, in Firefox.
But my windows box doesn’t want to show them. I’ve tested it in chrome, and firefox. Do I need to tell the browsers to view them correctly? Or is it an operating system modification?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use any “HTML Entity” in any encoding and in practice, if You have installed appropriate fonts, every browser will work fine. Well, it was created for displaying characters that are not included in current encoding. In Your situations it looks You have to install some fonts on Your Windows box.

    On the other hand, it has almost nothing to do with PHP.

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