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[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

On Friday 12 November 2004 09:00, James Hatridge wrote:
> Hi all...
>
> A few weeks ago someone wrote that to stop the bots from getting your
> email address off your web site you should use symbols instead of
> letters ie "ü" means the German ü.

I'm not sure how helpful that technique really is, since HTML character 
entities (the proper term for these things) are designed for machine 
processing.


> Anyway can someone tell me where to find a complete list of these
> symbols or at least the ABCs?

Anyway, this is the horse's mouth: <URL: 
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html>, but as a standard 
specification isn't the most accessible.

This one is a little more straigthforward to use as a ordinary 
reference: <URL: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entitiesref.asp>.

Most comprehensive books on HTML, e.g., O'Reilly's "HTML -- The 
Definitive Guide" or their "HTML Pocket Reference" include lists of 
character entities.


> Thanks,
>
> JIM


Randall Schulz