User:IIMarckus
I’m IIMarckus. I do web design, some general programming, and have an interest in proper typography on the Web.
MLT_REQ is my pet project that I hardly ever work on.
Useful Unicode characters
Arial isn’t really the best font to display these in, because it doesn’t angle quotes. Oh well.
| Character | Name | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| é | U+00E9 LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE | Only here because it’s Bulbapedia. |
| ‐ | U+2010 HYPHEN | Not the same as the “hyphen-minus” that’s on your keyboard, although that is generally an acceptable substitute. |
| – | U+2013 EN DASH | En dashes are used for ranges of numbers; e.g., 1990–1998. |
| — | U+2014 EM DASH | Em dashes denote parenthetical breaks in text. |
| ‘ | U+2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK | |
| ’ | U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK | This is the preferred character for apostrophes. |
| “ | U+201C LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK | |
| ” | U+201D RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK | |
| … | U+2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS | |
| ′ | U+2032 PRIME | Prime is used for (among other things) designating feet or minutes. |
| ″ | U+2033 DOUBLE PRIME | Likewise, double prime is used to designate inches or seconds. |
| − | U+2212 MINUS SIGN | This should be used in mathematics; compare (2 + 3 - 5) to (2 + 3 − 5). |
| ♀ | U+2640 FEMALE SIGN | Also known as the symbol of Venus. Denotes the female gender. |
| ♂ | U+2642 MALE SIGN | Also known as the symbol of Mars. Denotes the male gender. |
| 〃 | U+3003 DITTO MARK | What you use in tables to avoid repeating a table cell value. |
Userboxes
Are a fad and I refuse to display them here.
Categories
As of 05:40, 20 October 2008 (UTC), I count 2118. Of these, 142 begin with the word “user.” In addition:
- 47 begin with the name of a video game, followed by “user.”
- 15 begin with the name of a type, followed by “user.”
- 6 begin with the name of a web browser, followed by “user.”
- 6 begin with the name of a type of Internet connection, followed by “user.”
- 3 begin with the name of an operating system, followed by “user.”
Category:Event Pokémon tags consists solely of templates for userpages saying who has what event Pokémon.
Nineteen categories are of the form “Episodes focusing on <character>.”
Nineteen categories are of the form “Episodes directed and storyboarded by <person>.” This is despite the fact that for each of these persons exist two separate categories of the form “Episodes directed by <person>” and “Episodes storyboarded by <person>.”
When Category:Female characters and Category:Male characters were created, over seven hundred pages were edited solely to put them in one of these categories.
Every single page in Category:GB Islands is a stub.
Sixty‐six categories are of the form “Ships with <character>.” Of these, thirty‐two consist of only one page.
