Editing Help:Special characters (section)

=== Displaying special characters ===
To display Unicode or special characters on web page(s), one or more of the [[List of typefaces#Unicode fonts|Unicode fonts]] need to be present or installed in your computer, first. For proper working functionality, ''setup'' or ''configuration'' or ''settings'' from the web page viewing browser software also needs to be modified.

Special symbols should display properly without further configuration with [[Konqueror]], [[Opera (Internet suite)|Opera]], [[Safari (web browser)|Safari]], and most other recent browsers. An optional step that can be taken for better (and correct) display of characters with [[Ligature (typography)|ligature]] forms, [[Combining character|combined characters]], after the previously mentioned steps were followed, is to install a [[Unicode#Multilingual text-rendering engines|rendering engine]] software.

For displaying individual special characters, HTML decimal or [[hexadecimal]] numeric entity codes can be used in the place of the ''char''. If a paragraph with lots of special Unicode characters needs to be displayed, then, <code>&lt;p class="Unicode"></code> ... <code>&lt;/p&gt;</code>, or, <code>&lt;span class="Unicode"&gt;</code> ... <code>&lt;/span&gt;</code> can also be used.

The <code>class="Unicode"</code> is to be used in web page(s), HTML or wiki tags, where various characters from wide range of various Unicode blocks need to be displayed. If the special characters that need to be displayed on web page(s) are mostly covering fewer Unicode blocks, related to [[Unicode Latin|Latin scripts]], then <code>class="latinx"</code> can be used. For special characters or symbols related to [[International Phonetic Alphabet]], <code>class="IPA"</code> can be used. For [[Polytonic orthography|polytonic (Greek)]] characters or related symbols, <code>class="polytonic"</code> can be used.