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CONTENTS
Signing your name in talk pages
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You should sign your comments by appending four tildes to the comment, which adds your user name plus date/time. |
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<a href="/wiki/Special:MyPage" title="Special:MyPage">Username</a> (<a href="/wiki/Special:MyTalk" title="Special:MyTalk">talk</a>) 11:35, 22 March 2014 (UTC) |
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Adding three tildes will add just your user name. |
<a href="/wiki/Special:MyPage" title="Special:MyPage">Username</a> (<a href="/wiki/Special:MyTalk" title="Special:MyTalk">talk</a>) | |
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Adding five tildes gives the date/time alone. |
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11:35, 22 March 2014 (UTC) |
If you don't know how to - or have problems - typing a tilde character on your keyboard, you can copy (then paste) the tildes from here, to use in talk pages:
~~~ (just your user name)
~~~~ (your user name plus date/time)
~~~~~ (just the date/time)
You may be able to use the number pad to type the tilde.
Press and hold down the left ALT key, then type 126 on the number pad, then release the ALT key. The tilde should appear where the cursor is.
More info on ALT keys character entry is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_code
More available symbols may be found here:
ALSO: **** DOES NOT WORK ****
Character references that are based on the referenced character's UCS or Unicode code point are called numeric character references. In HTML 4 and in all versions of XHTML and XML, the code point can be expressed either as a decimal (base 10) number or as a hexadecimal (base 16) number. The syntax is as follows:
Character U+0026 (ampersand), followed by character U+0023 (number sign), followed by one of the following choices:
- one or more decimal digits zero (U+0030) through nine (U+0039); or
- character U+0078 ("x") followed by one or more hexadecimal digits, which are zero (U+0030) through nine (U+0039), Latin capital letter A (U+0041) through F (U+0046), and Latin small letter a (U+0061) through f (U+0066);
all followed by character U+003B (semicolon). Older versions of HTML disallowed the hexadecimal syntax.
TEST e;
Make a word italic
To italicize text, just put 2 apostrophes - '' - on each side.
THIS IS SUPPOSED TO WORK BUT DOES NOT: '
''This will appear italicized when displayed.''
See "cautions using bold and italics"
Make a word bold
3 apostrophes on each side will bold the text
'''This will appear in bold.'''
Make a word bold and italic
5 apostrophes on each side makes text appear in bold italics
'''''This will appear in bold and italics.'''''
<pre> and <nowiki>
Cautions on using bold and italics
Italic and bold formatting only works correctly within a single line. If you start bold or italics on one line, then press "Enter" for a new line, you must again put the bold or italics markup for the text on the second line (the correct number of apostrophes).
Markup such as bold or italics will be terminated at a line break (You must put the bold/italic markup again on the text of a new line).
The following is incorrect markup:
'''''This will be in bold and italics.'''''
And will give this result:
This will be in bold and italics.
The following is incorrect markup:
'''''This will be in bold and italics.'''''
And will give this result:
This will be in bold
and italics.
The following is correct markup:
'''''This will be in bold ''''' '''''and italics.'''''
And will give this appearance:
This will be in bold
and italics.
MUST CODE THE FOLLOWING SO DISPLAYS IN HELP FILE
For text as small caps, that uses a template. ???
Use small text if needed.
Better not use big text, unless it's within small text
A span tag can set text font-size as being 87% of prior size, to match an image caption.
Separating lines of text
Line breaks or newlines are used to add whitespace between lines, such as separating paragraphs.
A line break that is visible in the content is inserted by pressing the "Enter" key twice.
Pressing "Enter" only once will place a line break (and put the text on a new line) in the markup, but it will not show in the display in the wiki (there will not be a line break in the actual wiki text), except when using list markup (making lists using ????.
Markup such as bold or italics will be terminated at a line break (You must put the bold/italic markup again on the text of a new line).
Template:Break adds multiple line breaks ???.
Template:Crlf2 adds a true carriage return and line feed.
adds a break with styling to clear floating elements. WTF???
The MediaWiki software suppresses single newlines and converts lines starting with a space to preformatted text in a dashed box. HTML suppresses multiple spaces. It is often desirable to retain these elements for poems, lyrics, mottoes, oaths and the like. The Poem extension adds HTML-like Template:Tag tags to maintain newlines and spaces. These tags may be used inside other tags such as Template:Tag. CSS styles may be applied to this tag, e.g.: <poem style="margin-left: 2em;">.
</poem>
Making text appear like "source code"
use <code> and </code> to produce text with no formatting, similar to what is seen in computer coding.
function <code>int m2()</code> is nice
... will display:
function int m2() is nice
Create a section heading (using "=")
The equal sign ("=") is used to create headings.
Where it says above, "Create a section heading (using "=")" is a section heading.
A single = is used for the main article heading ???
The heading above was created with this markup:
==Create a section heading (using "=")==
You may create further sub-headings by using additional = signs as follows:
==Create a section heading==
===Create a section sub-heading===
====Create another section sub-heading====
Centering text
You may use the .HTML markup to center text.
<center> TEXT TO CENTER </center>
... will give you the following:
WE HAVE NO CENTER TEMPLATE????
Align text to right
Make a list
Normal lists
A simple list can be created by putting an asterisk (*) at the beginning of each item.
See "cautions on making lists".
Unordered list
Ordered list
Numbered lists
Cautions on making lists".
Do not leave blank lines between items in a list unless there is a reason to do so, since this causes the MediaWiki software to interpret each item as beginning a new list.
To list terms and definitions, start a new line with a semicolon (;) followed by the term. Then, type a colon (:) followed by a definition.
Definition lists consist of group names corresponding to values. Group names (terms) are in bold. Values (definitions) are indented. Each group must include one or more definitions. For a single or first value, the : can be placed on the same line after ; – but subsequent values must be placed on separate lines.
List with indentations
Making a "blockquote" (indenting a section of text)=
There are several ways to indent text. You may wish to indent a block of text.
Use this:
<blockquote> TEXT TO BE INDENTED TEXT TO BE INDENTED TEXT TO BE INDENTED TEXT TO BE INDENTED TEXT TO BE INDENTED TEXT TO BE INDENTED TEXT TO BE INDENTED </BLOCKQUOTE>
This will give you:
TEXT TO BE INDENTED TEXT TO BE INDENTED TEXT TO BE INDENTED TEXT TO BE INDENTED TEXT TO BE INDENTED TEXT TO BE INDENTED TEXT TO BE INDENTED
Indent a single line
This may be done by ???
use nbsp
Indent the following line after an indented line
Template:Outdent, Template:Outdent2
Making a simple table
using <tbody><tr><td>
Making links
Create a link to another wiki page
Create a link to another part of the same page
Creating a reference to an external source (see:Category:Citation templates)
<pre>blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah <ref>{{cite web|url=PUT_URL_HERE |title=PUT_NAME_OF_LINK_HERE |publisher=PUT_PUBLISHER_HERE |date=PUT_DATE_HERE |accessdate=PUT_ACCESS_DATE_HERE}}</ref></pre>
Put a horizontal line (a "rule")
The horizontal rule represents a paragraph-level thematic break. Do not use in article content.
Make a TOC (table of contents)
Use __TOC__ to automatically create a table of contents.
MUST EXPLAIN HOW TO LIMIT TOC, ETC.
Making text appear as "code" text
Turning off wiki markup
Using "nowiki"
<nowiki></nowiki>
... can be used to "turn off" then "turn on" wiki markup.
using pre
<pre>
can be used to "turn off" the wiki markup, and put the text in a box. The text will extend beyond the right margin, and will not be "wrapped" at the normal page margin.
What is a "non-breaking space" and when to use it
You can include a non-breaking space (sometimes called non-printing character) where you require two words to always appear together on the same line, such as Mr. Smith or 400 km/h, using in place of a regular space between the two "words" that need to behave as a single word (never be separated on different lines).
Mr. Smith or 400 km/h
Extra spacing within text can best be achieved using the pad template.
Mary Template:Pad had a little lamb. ???
What a colon (:) does at the beginning of a line
:This line begins with a colon. The colon indents the text.
- This line begins with a colon. The colon indents the text.
More than one colon may be used.
:This line begins with a colon. The colon indents the text.
- This line begins with a colon. The colon indents the text.
::This line begins with two colons.
- This line begins with two colons.
What a asterisk (*) does at the beginning of a line
An asterisk creates a simple list, as in the following:
*An asterisk creates a simple list.
- An asterisk creates a simple list.
- An asterisk creates a simple list.
- An asterisk creates a simple list.
Do not put spaces between the lines. ???
What a space ( ) does at the beginning of a line
A space at the beginning of a line acts like the <pre> tag.
This line has a space at the beginning of the line.
This line has a space at the beginning of the line.
Making the < and > characters
< and >
... gives
< and >
Making an invisible comment within the text
<!-- An example of hidden comments. This won't be visible except in "edit" mode. -->
Making a simple table
<table> <td>
<tbody></tbody>
| this is a table |
Why wiki markup is preferred to HTML markup
Other characters you may use in wikis
PUT THE BASIC ONES HERE. MOVE THE ADVANCED TO ANOTHER PAGE.
MAKE NOTE ON USING CHARMAP.EXE IN WINDOWS see end of this file for some TABLE DID NOT WORK ON THOSE - DIV DID NOT WORK
HELP WITH CHARMAP
http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/charmap.html
FOR MAC COMPUTERS, SEE:
http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codemac.html
AND
http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codemacext.html
Most laptops have an "embedded" numeric keypad which you may need to use to insert some characters - see your laptop instruction manual for how to activate and use the embedded numeric keypad-
Special characters
<tbody></tbody>À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Œ Ù Ú Û Ü Ÿ ß à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ñ ò ó ô õ ö ø œ ù ú û ü ÿ |
À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Œ Ù Ú Û Ü Ÿ ß à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ñ ò ó ô õ ö ø œ ù ú û ü ÿ |
[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Full_list_of_wiki_markup_notation&action=edit§ion=22" title="Edit section: Punctuation, special characters">edit</a>] Punctuation, special characters
<tbody></tbody>| What you type | What it looks like |
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¿ ¡ § ¶ † ‡ • – — ‹ › « » ‘ ’ “ ” ' " |
¿ ¡ § ¶ † ‡ • – — ‹ › « » ‘ ’ “ ” ' " |
[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Full_list_of_wiki_markup_notation&action=edit§ion=23" title="Edit section: Other punctuation, escaping special characters">edit</a>] Other punctuation, escaping special characters
The <a href="/w/index.php?title=Template:Tag&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template:Tag (not yet written)">Template:Tag</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Template:Tag&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template:Tag (not yet written)">Template:Tag</a> markup tags are also available. (For writing "[", "{", "&", "}", "]", for example.)
<a name="Commercial_symbols"></a>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Full_list_of_wiki_markup_notation&action=edit§ion=24" title="Edit section: Commercial symbols">edit</a>] Commercial symbols
<tbody></tbody>| What you type | What it looks like |
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™ © ® ¢ € ¥ £ ¤ |
™ © ® ¢ € ¥ £ ¤ |
[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Full_list_of_wiki_markup_notation&action=edit§ion=25" title="Edit section: Subscripts and superscripts">edit</a>] Subscripts and superscripts
- The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_of_Style_%28mathematics%29#Superscripts_and_subscripts" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(mathematics)">Manual of Style</a> prefers the x<sub>1</sub> format.
- The latter methods of sub/superscripting cannot be used in the most general context, as they rely on Unicode support which may not be present on all users' machines. For the 1, 2, 3 superscripts, it is nevertheless preferred when possible (as with units of measurement) because most browsers have an easier time formatting lines with it.
| Description | What you type | What it looks like |
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Subscripts |
x<sub>1</sub> x<sub>2</sub> x<sub>3</sub> or x₀ x₁ x₂ x₃ x₄ x₅ x₆ x₇ x₈ x₉ |
x1 x2 x3 or x₀ x₁ x₂ x₃ x₄ x₅ x₆ x₇ x₈ x₉ |
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Superscripts |
x<sup>1</sup> x<sup>2</sup> x<sup>3</sup> or x⁰ x¹ x² x³ x⁴ x⁵ x⁶ x⁷ x⁸ x⁹ |
x1 x2 x3 or x⁰ x¹ x² x³ x⁴ x⁵ x⁶ x⁷ x⁸ x⁹ |
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Combined |
ε<sub>0</sub> = 8.85 × 10<sup>−12</sup> C² / J m 1 [[hectare]] = [[1 E+4 m²]] |
ε0 = 8.85 × 10−12 C² / J m 1 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hectare&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hectare (not yet written)">hectare</a> = <a href="/w/index.php?title=1_E%2B4_m%C2%B2&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1 E+4 m² (not yet written)">1 E+4 m²</a> |
[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Full_list_of_wiki_markup_notation&action=edit§ion=26" title="Edit section: Greek characters">edit</a>] Greek characters
<tbody></tbody>| What you type | What it looks like |
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α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π ρ σ ς τ υ φ χ ψ ω Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω |
α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π ρ σ ς τ υ φ χ ψ ω Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω |
[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Full_list_of_wiki_markup_notation&action=edit§ion=27" title="Edit section: Mathematical characters">edit</a>] Mathematical characters
- See also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_Mathematics" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:WikiProject_Mathematics">WikiProject Mathematics</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=TeX&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="TeX (not yet written)">TeX</a>.
| What you type | What it looks like |
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∫ ∑ ∏ √ − ± ∞ ≈ ∝ ≡ ≠ ≤ ≥ × · ÷ ∂ ′ ″ ∇ ‰ ° ∴ ℵ ø ∈ ∉ ∩ ∪ ⊂ ⊃ ⊆ ⊇ ¬ ∧ ∨ ∃ ∀ ⇒ ⇐ ⇓ ⇑ ⇔ → ↓ ↑ ← ↔ |
∫ ∑ ∏ √ − ± ∞ ≈ ∝ ≡ ≠ ≤ ≥ × · ÷ ∂ ′ ″ ∇ ‰ ° ∴ ℵ ø ∈ ∉ ∩ ∪ ⊂ ⊃ ⊆ ⊇ ¬ ∧ ∨ ∃ ∀ ⇒ ⇐ ⇓ ⇑ ⇔ → ↓ ↑ ← ↔ |
SOME UNICODE:
SOURCE:
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE TABLE???
- 0000
- 0010
- 0020
- !
- "
- #
- $
- %
- &
- '
- (
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- +
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- 0030
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- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
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- 8
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- 0050
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- [
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- 0060
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- p
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- {
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- ~
- 0080
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- 00A0
- ¡
- ¢
- £
- ¤
- ¥
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-
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- 00B0
- °
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- ³
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- µ
- ¶
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- ¿
- 00C0
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- Ã
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- Å
- Æ
- Ç
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- É
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- Ë
- Ì
- Í
- Î
- Ï
- 00D0
- Ð
- Ñ
- Ò
- Ó
- Ô
- Õ
- Ö
- ×
- Ø
- Ù
- Ú
- Û
- Ü
- Ý
- Þ
- ß
- 00E0
- à
- á
- â
- ã
- ä
- å
- æ
- ç
- è
- é
- ê
- ë
- ì
- í
- î
- ï
- 00F0
- ð
- ñ
- ò
- ó
- ô
- õ
- ö
- ÷
- ø
- ù
- ú
- û
- ü
- ý
- þ
- ÿ
- 0100
- Ā
- ā
- Ă
- ă
- Ą
- ą
- Ć
- ć
- Ĉ
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- Ċ
- ċ
- Č
- č
- Ď
- ď
- 0110
- Đ
- đ
- Ē
- ē
- Ĕ
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- Ė
- ė
- Ę
- ę
- Ě
- ě
- Ĝ
- ĝ
- Ğ
- ğ
- 0120
- Ġ
- ġ
- Ģ
- ģ
- Ĥ
- ĥ
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- ħ
- Ĩ
- ĩ
- Ī
- ī
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- ĭ
- Į
- į
- 0130
- İ
- ı
- IJ
- ij
- Ĵ
- ĵ
- Ķ
- ķ
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- 0140
- ŀ
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- ņ
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- ʼn
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- Ō
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- 0150
- Ő
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- Œ
- œ
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- Ŗ
- ŗ
- Ř
- ř
- Ś
- ś
- Ŝ
- ŝ
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- ş
- 0160
- Š
- š
- Ţ
- ţ
- Ť
- ť
- Ŧ
- ŧ
- Ũ
- ũ
- Ū
- ū
- Ŭ
- ŭ
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- 0170
- Ű
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- ų
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- Ź
- ź
- Ż
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- ž
- ſ
- 0180
- ƀ
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- Ƃ
- ƃ
- Ƅ
- ƅ
- Ɔ
- Ƈ
- ƈ
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- Ɗ
- Ƌ
- ƌ
- ƍ
- Ǝ
- Ə
- 0190
- Ɛ
- Ƒ
- ƒ
- Ɠ
- Ɣ
- ƕ
- Ɩ
- Ɨ
- Ƙ
- ƙ
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- ƛ
- Ɯ
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- Ɵ
- 01A0
- Ơ
- ơ
- Ƣ
- ƣ
- Ƥ
- ƥ
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- Ƨ
- ƨ
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- ƭ
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- 01B0
- ư
- Ʊ
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- Ƴ
- ƴ
- Ƶ
- ƶ
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- ƹ
- ƺ
- ƻ
- Ƽ
- ƽ
- ƾ
- ƿ
- 01C0
- ǀ
- ǁ
- ǂ
- ǃ
- DŽ
- Dž
- dž
- LJ
- Lj
- lj
- NJ
- Nj
- nj
- Ǎ
- ǎ
- Ǐ
- 01D0
- ǐ
- Ǒ
- ǒ
- Ǔ
- ǔ
- Ǖ
- ǖ
- Ǘ
- ǘ
- Ǚ
- ǚ
- Ǜ
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- ǝ
- Ǟ
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- 01E0
- Ǡ
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- Ǣ
- ǣ
- Ǥ
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- Ǧ
- ǧ
- Ǩ
- ǩ
- Ǫ
- ǫ
- Ǭ
- ǭ
- Ǯ
- ǯ
- 01F0
- ǰ
- DZ
- Dz
- dz
- Ǵ
- ǵ
- Ƕ
- Ƿ
- Ǹ
- ǹ
- Ǻ
- ǻ
- Ǽ
- ǽ
- Ǿ
- ǿ
If you REALLY need some unusual characters, see the following:
http://unicode-table.com/en/sections/
