2019

SPECIAL CHARACTERS
20 | A GUIDE TO XPRESS TAGS 2019
Special characters
XPress Tags lets you specify character encoding and insert and manipulate special
characters such as discretionary hyphens and non-breaking spaces.
Encoding
One of the following three extended character set indicators is automatically placed
at the top of an XPress Tags file you create using the Save Text command (File
menu).
Unicode (UTF-16): <e8> •
Unicode (UTF-8): <e9> •
Mac Roman (x-mac-roman): <e0> •
Windows Latin (windows–1252): <e1> •
Western (iso–8859–1): <e2> •
Japanese Win (windows–932–2000): <e3> •
Japanese Mac (x-mac-japanese): <e21> •
Korean Windows (MS codePage 949): <e19> •
Korean Mac (KSC5601): <e20> •
Traditional Chinese (BIG5): <e6> •
Simplified Chinese (GB2312): <e7> •
Escaped characters
To use as text certain characters that XPress Tags would otherwise consider as part of
specific codes, use these special characters.
@: <\@> •
<: <\<> •
\: <\\> •
Other special characters