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Character Entities Supported in the Mobipocket Reader

The internal representation of characters in the Reader is Unicode but, not all PDA devices support Unicode. To date only Pocket PC and Symbian devices are Unicode. PalmOS devices are not. The Emulator on the PC is not either.

The set of characters that are handled by the Mobi Reader are listed in the html_entities_num.txt text file (see below). The first column gives the HTML entity, the 2nd is the Unicode character encoding, ie the character on PocketPC, the 3rd is the ISO-8859 character , i.e. that will display on PalmOS. The list is actually a subset of the XHTML list in the standard oeb1.ent file (see below)

This being said, some characters may not display on some PocketPC devices because the Unicode encoding character is not available in the fonts that are delivered with the OS. Even though PocketPC claims to be Unicode, the full Unicode character may not in fact be available on the device.

Example : → RARR_MIN;8594;"->";
The Unicode code "#8594" is apparently not available on the PocketPC devices in the fonts that were tested. Whereas on Palm, it's the "->" that displays.

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# (c) Mobipocket.com 2000
# file giving association between entities UNICODE code, their ID (which is the
# position in the resulting table), the text associated (in ISO-8859.1) and some
# flags

FNOF_MAJ;402;"f";

ALPHA_MAJ;913;"A";
BETA_MAJ;914;"B";
GAMMA_MAJ;915;"";

DELTA_MAJ;916;"";

EPSILON_MAJ;917;"E";
ZETA_MAJ;918;"Z";
ETA_MAJ;919;"H";
THETA_MAJ;920;"";

IOTA_MAJ;921;"I";
KAPPA_MAJ;922;"K";
LAMBDA_MAJ;923;"";

MU_MAJ;924;"M";
NU_MAJ;925;"N";
XI_MAJ;926;"";
OMICRON_MAJ;927;"O";
PI_MAJ;928;"";
RHO_MAJ;929;"P";

SIGMA_MAJ;931;"";

TAU_MAJ;932;"T";
UPSILON_MAJ;933;"Y";

PHI_MAJ;934;"";

CHI_MAJ;935;"X";
PSI_MAJ;936;"";

OMEGA_MAJ;937;"";

ALPHA_MIN;945;"";

BETA_MIN;946;"ß";
GAMMA_MIN;947;"";

DELTA_MIN;948;"";

EPSILON_MIN;949;"";

ZETA_MIN;950;"";
ETA_MIN;951;"";
THETA_MIN;952;"";

IOTA_MIN;953;"";
KAPPA_MIN;954;"";

LAMBDA_MIN;955;"";

MU_MIN;956;"µ";
NU_MIN;957;"v";
XI_MIN;958;"";
OMICRON_MIN;959;"o";
PI_MIN;960;"";
RHO_MIN;961;"";
SIGMAF_MIN;962;"";

SIGMA_MIN;963;"";

TAU_MIN;964;"";
UPSILON_MIN;965;"u";

PHI_MIN;966;"";
CHI_MIN;967;"x";
PSI_MIN;968;"";
OMEGA_MIN;969;"";

THETASYM_MIN;977;"";

UPSIH_MIN;978;"";

PIV_MIN;982;"";

BULL_MIN;8226;"•";

HELLIP_MIN;8230;"...";

PRIME_MIN;8242;"'";
PRIME_MAJ;8243;"''";

OLINE_MIN;8254;"";

FRASL_MIN;8260;"/";

WEIERP_MIN;8472;"P";

IMAGE_MIN;8465;"I";

REAL_MIN;8476;"R";

TRADE_MIN;8482;"tm";
ALEFSYM_MIN;8501;"";

LARR_MIN;8592;"<-";
UARR_MIN;8593;"";
RARR_MIN;8594;"->";
DARR_MIN;8595;"";
HARR_MIN;8596;"<->";
CRARR_MIN;8629;"";

LARR_MAJ;8656;"<=";

UARR_MAJ;8657;"";
RARR_MAJ;8658;"=>";

DARR_MAJ;8659;"";
HARR_MAJ;8660;"<=>";

FORALL_MIN;8704;"V";
PART_MIN;8706;"";
EXIST_MIN;8707;"E";
EMPTY_MIN;8709;"Ø";

NABLA_MIN;8711;"";

ISIN_MIN;8712;"";
NOTIN_MIN;8713;"";
NI_MIN;8715;"";

PROD_MIN;8719;"";

SUM_MIN;8721;"";

MINUS_MIN;8722;"-";
LOWAST_MIN;8727;"*";
RADIC_MIN;8730;"";

PROP_MIN;8733;"";
INFIN_MIN;8734;"";
ANG_MIN;8736;"";
AND_MIN;8743;"";
OR_MIN;8744;"";
CAP_MIN;8745;"";
CUP_MIN;8746;"";
INTEGRAL_MIN;8747;"";
THERE4_MIN;8756;"";
SIM_MIN;8764;"~";

CONG_MIN;8773;"";
ASYMP_MIN;8776;"";

NE_MIN;8800;"!=";
EQUIV_MIN;8801;"";
LE_MIN;8804;"<=";
GE_MIN;8805;">=";

SUB_MIN;8834;"";
SUP_MIN;8835;"";

NSUB_MIN;8836;"";
SUBE_MIN;8838;"";
SUPE_MIN;8839;"";

OPLUS_MIN;8853;"";

OTIMES_MIN;8855;"";

PERP_MIN;8869;"";

SDOT_MIN;8901;"";

LCEIL_MIN;8968;"";

RCEIL_MIN;8969;"";
LFLOOR_MIN;8970;"";

RFLOOR_MIN;8971;"";
LANG_MIN;9001;"";

RANG_MIN;9002;"";

LOZ_MIN;9674;"";

SPADES_MIN;9824;"";

CLUBS_MIN;9827;"";

HEARTS_MIN;9829;"";

DIAMS_MIN;9830;"";

# special

QUOT_MIN;34;"\"";

AMP_MIN;38;"&";
LT_MIN;60;"<";
GT_MIN;62;">";
APOS_MIN;39;"'";

OELIG_MAJ;338;"OE";

OELIG_MIN;339;"oe";

SCARON_MAJ;352;"";

SCARON_MIN;353;"";

YUML_MAJ;376;"";

CIRC_MIN;710;"^";

TILDE_MIN;732;"~";

ENSP_MIN;8194;" ";
EMSP_MIN;8195;" ";
THINSP_MIN;8201;" ";
ZWNJ_MIN;8204;"";

ZWJ_MIN;8205;"";
LRM_MIN;8206;"";
RLM_MIN;8207;"";
NDASH_MIN;8211;"–";
MDASH_MIN;8212;"—";
LSQUO_MIN;8216;"‘";

RSQUO_MIN;8217;"’";

SBQUO_MIN;8218;",";
LDQUO_MIN;8220;"“";

RDQUO_MIN;8221;"”";

BDQUO_MIN;8222;",,";
DAGGER_MIN;8224;"†";
DAGGER_MAJ;8225;"‡";
PERMIL_MIN;8240;"‰";
LSAQUO_MIN;8249;"‹";

RSAQUO_MIN;8250;"›";

EURO_MIN;8364;"€";

# latin 1
NBSP_MIN;160;" ";

IEXCL_MIN;161;"¡";
CENT_MIN;162;"¢";
POUND_MIN;163;"£";
CURREN_MIN;164;"¤";
YEN_MIN;165;"¥";
BRVBAR_MIN;166;"¦";

SECT_MIN;167;"§";
UML_MIN;168;"¨";

COPY_MIN;169;"©";
ORDF_MIN;170;"ª";
LAQUO_MIN;171;"«";

NOT_MIN;172;"¬";

SHY_MIN;173;"";

REG_MIN;174;"®";

MACR_MIN;175;"¯";

DEG_MIN;176;"°";
PLUSMN_MIN;177;"±";

SUP2_MIN;178;"²";
SUP3_MIN;179;"³";

ACUTE_MIN;180;"´";

MICRO_MIN;181;"µ";
PARA_MIN;182;"¶";

MIDDOT_MIN;183;"·";

CEDIL_MIN;184;"¸";
SUP1_MIN;185;"¹";

ORDM_MIN;186;"º";

RAQUO_MIN;187;"»";

FRAC14_MIN;188;"¼";

FRAC12_MIN;189;"½";

FRAC34_MIN;190;"¾";

IQUEST_MIN;191;"¿";

AGRAVE_MAJ;192;"À";

AACUTE_MAJ;193;"Á";

ACIRC_MAJ;194;"Â";

ATILDE_MAJ;195;"Ã";

AUML_MAJ;196;"Ä";

ARING_MAJ;197;"Å";

AELIG_MAJ;198;"Æ";

CCEDIL_MAJ;199;"Ç";

EGRAVE_MAJ;200;"È";

EACUTE_MAJ;201;"É";

ECIRC_MAJ;202;"Ê";

EUML_MAJ;203;"Ë";

IGRAVE_MAJ;204;"Ì";

IACUTE_MAJ;205;"Í";

ICIRC_MAJ;206;"Î";

IUML_MAJ;207;"Ï";

ETH_MAJ;208;"Ð";
NTILDE_MAJ;209;"Ñ";

OGRAVE_MAJ;210;"Ò";

OACUTE_MAJ;211;"Ó";

OCIRC_MAJ;212;"Ô";

OTILDE_MAJ;213;"Õ";

OUML_MAJ;214;"Ö";

TIMES_MIN;215;"×";
OSLASH_MAJ;216;"Ø";

UGRAVE_MAJ;217;"Ù";

UACUTE_MAJ;218;"Ú";

UCIRC_MAJ;219;"Û";

UUML_MAJ;220;"Ü";

YACUTE_MAJ;221;"Ý";

THORN_MAJ;222;"Þ";

SZLIG_MIN;223;"ß";

AGRAVE_MIN;224;"à";

AACUTE_MIN;225;"á";

ACIRC_MIN;226;"â";

ATILDE_MIN;227;"ã";

AUML_MIN;228;"ä";

ARING_MIN;229;"å";

AELIG_MIN;230;"æ";

CCEDIL_MIN;231;"ç";

EGRAVE_MIN;232;"è";

EACUTE_MIN;233;"é";

ECIRC_MIN;234;"ê";

EUML_MIN;235;"ë";

IGRAVE_MIN;236;"ì";

IACUTE_MIN;237;"í";

ICIRC_MIN;238;"î";

IUML_MIN;239;"ï";

ETH_MIN;240;"ð";
NTILDE_MIN;241;"ñ";

OGRAVE_MIN;242;"ò";

OACUTE_MIN;243;"ó";

OCIRC_MIN;244;"ô";

OTILDE_MIN;245;"õ";

OUML_MIN;246;"ö";

DIVIDE_MIN;247;"÷";
OSLASH_MIN;248;"ø";

UGRAVE_MIN;249;"ù";

UACUTE_MIN;250;"ú";

UCIRC_MIN;251;"û";

UUML_MIN;252;"ü";

YACUTE_MIN;253;"ý";

THORN_MIN;254;"þ";

YUML_MIN;255;"ÿ";

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<!--
Character entities for the Open eBook publication structure version 1.0.

Version: 1.0
Revision: 19990916-x

Authors: Gunter Hille <hille@abc.de>
Ben Trafford <bent@exemplary.net>
Garret Wilson <garret@globalmentor.com>

Usage:
<!ENTITY % OEBEntities PUBLIC "+//ISBN 0-9673008-1-9//DTD OEB 1.0 Entities//EN" "oeb1.ent">
%OEBEntities;

References:
This DTD fragment is merely a combination of the external entities included
with XHTML 1.0.

Transitional XHTML 1.0 DTD at http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/transitional.dtd
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/HTMLlat1x.ent
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/HTMLspecialx.ent
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/HTMLsymbolx.ent

Portions (C) International Organization for Standardization 1986.
Permission to copy in any form is granted for use with
conforming SGML systems and applications as defined in
ISO 8879, provided this notice is included in all copies.
-->

<!ENTITY nbsp " " >
<!ENTITY iexcl "¡" >
<!ENTITY cent "¢" >
<!ENTITY pound "£" >
<!ENTITY curren "¤" >
<!ENTITY yen "¥" >
<!ENTITY brvbar "¦" >
<!ENTITY sect "§" >
<!ENTITY uml "¨" >
<!ENTITY copy "©" >
<!ENTITY ordf "ª" >
<!ENTITY laquo "«" >
<!ENTITY not "¬" >
<!ENTITY shy "" >
<!ENTITY reg "®" >
<!ENTITY macr "¯" >
<!ENTITY deg "°" >
<!ENTITY plusmn "±" >
<!ENTITY sup2 "²" >
<!ENTITY sup3 "³" >
<!ENTITY acute "´" >
<!ENTITY micro "µ" >
<!ENTITY para "¶" >
<!ENTITY middot "·" >
<!ENTITY cedil "¸" >
<!ENTITY sup1 "¹" >
<!ENTITY ordm "º" >
<!ENTITY raquo "»" >
<!ENTITY frac14 "¼" >
<!ENTITY frac12 "½" >
<!ENTITY frac34 "¾" >
<!ENTITY iquest "¿" >
<!ENTITY Agrave "À" >
<!ENTITY Aacute "Á" >
<!ENTITY Acirc "Â" >
<!ENTITY Atilde "Ã" >
<!ENTITY Auml "Ä" >
<!ENTITY Aring "Å" >
<!ENTITY AElig "Æ" >
<!ENTITY Ccedil "Ç" >
<!ENTITY Egrave "È" >
<!ENTITY Eacute "É" >
<!ENTITY Ecirc "Ê" >
<!ENTITY Euml "Ë" >
<!ENTITY Igrave "Ì" >
<!ENTITY Iacute "Í" >
<!ENTITY Icirc "Î" >
<!ENTITY Iuml "Ï" >
<!ENTITY ETH "Ð" >
<!ENTITY Ntilde "Ñ" >
<!ENTITY Ograve "Ò" >
<!ENTITY Oacute "Ó" >
<!ENTITY Ocirc "Ô" >
<!ENTITY Otilde "Õ" >
<!ENTITY Ouml "Ö" >
<!ENTITY times "×" >
<!ENTITY Oslash "Ø" >
<!ENTITY Ugrave "Ù" >
<!ENTITY Uacute "Ú" >
<!ENTITY Ucirc "Û" >
<!ENTITY Uuml "Ü" >
<!ENTITY Yacute "Ý" >
<!ENTITY THORN "Þ" >
<!ENTITY szlig "ß" >
<!ENTITY agrave "à" >
<!ENTITY aacute "á" >
<!ENTITY acirc "â" >
<!ENTITY atilde "ã" >
<!ENTITY auml "ä" >
<!ENTITY aring "å" >
<!ENTITY aelig "æ" >
<!ENTITY ccedil "ç" >
<!ENTITY egrave "è" >
<!ENTITY eacute "é" >
<!ENTITY ecirc "ê" >
<!ENTITY euml "ë" >
<!ENTITY igrave "ì" >
<!ENTITY iacute "í" >
<!ENTITY icirc "î" >
<!ENTITY iuml "ï" >
<!ENTITY eth "ð" >
<!ENTITY ntilde "ñ" >
<!ENTITY ograve "ò" >
<!ENTITY oacute "ó" >
<!ENTITY ocirc "ô" >
<!ENTITY otilde "õ" >
<!ENTITY ouml "ö" >
<!ENTITY divide "÷" >
<!ENTITY oslash "ø" >
<!ENTITY ugrave "ù" >
<!ENTITY uacute "ú" >
<!ENTITY ucirc "û" >
<!ENTITY uuml "ü" >
<!ENTITY yacute "ý" >
<!ENTITY thorn "þ" >
<!ENTITY yuml "ÿ" >

<!ENTITY apos "'">

<!ENTITY OElig "Œ" >
<!ENTITY oelig "œ" >

<!ENTITY Scaron "Š" >
<!ENTITY scaron "š" >
<!ENTITY Yuml "Ÿ" >

<!ENTITY circ "ˆ" >
<!ENTITY tilde "˜" >

<!ENTITY ensp " " >
<!ENTITY emsp " " >
<!ENTITY thinsp " " >
<!ENTITY zwnj "‌" >
<!ENTITY zwj "‍" >
<!ENTITY lrm "‎" >
<!ENTITY rlm "‏" >
<!ENTITY ndash "–" >
<!ENTITY mdash "—" >
<!ENTITY lsquo "‘" >
<!ENTITY rsquo "’" >
<!ENTITY sbquo "‚" >
<!ENTITY ldquo "“" >
<!ENTITY rdquo "”" >
<!ENTITY bdquo "„" >
<!ENTITY dagger "†" >
<!ENTITY Dagger "‡" >
<!ENTITY permil "‰" >

<!ENTITY lsaquo "‹" >

<!ENTITY rsaquo "›" >
<!ENTITY euro "€" >

<!ENTITY fnof "ƒ" >

<!ENTITY Alpha "Α" >
<!ENTITY Beta "Β" >
<!ENTITY Gamma "Γ" >
<!ENTITY Delta "Δ" >
<!ENTITY Epsilon "Ε" >
<!ENTITY Zeta "Ζ" >
<!ENTITY Eta "Η" >
<!ENTITY Theta "Θ" >
<!ENTITY Iota "Ι" >
<!ENTITY Kappa "Κ" >
<!ENTITY Lambda "Λ" >
<!ENTITY Mu "Μ" >
<!ENTITY Nu "Ν" >
<!ENTITY Xi "Ξ" >
<!ENTITY Omicron "Ο" >
<!ENTITY Pi "Π" >
<!ENTITY Rho "Ρ" >

<!ENTITY Sigma "Σ" >
<!ENTITY Tau "Τ" >
<!ENTITY Upsilon "Υ" >
<!ENTITY Phi "Φ" >
<!ENTITY Chi "Χ" >
<!ENTITY Psi "Ψ" >
<!ENTITY Omega "Ω" >
<!ENTITY alpha "α" >
<!ENTITY beta "β" >
<!ENTITY gamma "γ" >
<!ENTITY delta "δ" >
<!ENTITY epsilon "ε" >
<!ENTITY zeta "ζ" >
<!ENTITY eta "η" >
<!ENTITY theta "θ" >
<!ENTITY iota "ι" >
<!ENTITY kappa "κ" >
<!ENTITY lambda "λ" >
<!ENTITY mu "μ" >
<!ENTITY nu "ν" >
<!ENTITY xi "ξ" >
<!ENTITY omicron "ο" >
<!ENTITY pi "π" >
<!ENTITY rho "ρ" >
<!ENTITY sigmaf "ς" >
<!ENTITY sigma "σ" >
<!ENTITY tau "τ" >
<!ENTITY upsilon "υ" >
<!ENTITY phi "φ" >
<!ENTITY chi "χ" >
<!ENTITY psi "ψ" >
<!ENTITY omega "ω" >
<!ENTITY thetasym "ϑ" >
<!ENTITY upsih "ϒ" >
<!ENTITY piv "ϖ" >

<!ENTITY bull "•" >

<!ENTITY hellip "…" >
<!ENTITY prime "′" >
<!ENTITY Prime "″" >
<!ENTITY oline "‾" >
<!ENTITY frasl "⁄" >

<!ENTITY weierp "℘" >
<!ENTITY image "ℑ" >
<!ENTITY real "ℜ" >
<!ENTITY trade "™" >
<!ENTITY alefsym "ℵ" >

<!ENTITY larr "←" >
<!ENTITY uarr "↑" >
<!ENTITY rarr "→" >
<!ENTITY darr "↓" >
<!ENTITY harr "↔" >
<!ENTITY crarr "↵" >
<!ENTITY lArr "⇐" >

<!ENTITY uArr "⇑" >
<!ENTITY rArr "⇒" >

<!ENTITY dArr "⇓" >
<!ENTITY hArr "⇔" >

<!ENTITY forall "∀" >
<!ENTITY part "∂" >
<!ENTITY exist "∃" >
<!ENTITY empty "∅" >
<!ENTITY nabla "∇" >
<!ENTITY isin "∈" >
<!ENTITY notin "∉" >
<!ENTITY ni "∋" >

<!ENTITY prod "∏" >

<!ENTITY sum "∑" >

<!ENTITY minus "−" >
<!ENTITY lowast "∗" >
<!ENTITY radic "√" >
<!ENTITY prop "∝" >
<!ENTITY infin "∞" >
<!ENTITY ang "∠" >
<!ENTITY and "∧" >
<!ENTITY or "∨" >
<!ENTITY cap "∩" >
<!ENTITY cup "∪" >
<!ENTITY int "∫" >
<!ENTITY there4 "∴" >
<!ENTITY sim "∼" >

<!ENTITY cong "≅" >
<!ENTITY asymp "≈" >
<!ENTITY ne "≠" >
<!ENTITY equiv "≡" >
<!ENTITY le "≤" >
<!ENTITY ge "≥" >
<!ENTITY sub "⊂" >
<!ENTITY sup "⊃" >

<!ENTITY nsub "⊄" >
<!ENTITY sube "⊆" >
<!ENTITY supe "⊇" >
<!ENTITY oplus "⊕" >
<!ENTITY otimes "⊗" >
<!ENTITY perp "⊥" >
<!ENTITY sdot "⋅" >

<!ENTITY lceil "⌈" >
<!ENTITY rceil "⌉" >
<!ENTITY lfloor "⌊" >
<!ENTITY rfloor "⌋" >
<!ENTITY lang "〈" >

<!ENTITY rang "〉" >

<!ENTITY loz "◊" >

<!ENTITY spades "♠" >

<!ENTITY clubs "♣" >
<!ENTITY hearts "♥" >
<!ENTITY diams "♦" >