But there are also other reasons for using the ASCII codes, such as availability and broken keys. Some characters may not be available in your Symbols Library because your fonts don’t support them.

A set of HTML "escape codes" used to render special characters and foreign letters ... many commonly used symbols have mnemonic equivalents such as the "lt" and "gt." Note that numeric codes ...

In a world full of different types of Fonts we look for on the web, we always end up looking for different types of Special characters, Accents and Symbols ... Typing Alt Codes using Keyboard.