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I use Blogger<\/a> to create and update this blog (because it’s quick and easy, whilst still giving me a level of control over layout etc.).<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the graphical interface in Blogger strips out some non-alphanumeric characters, such as the pipe symbol (|) meaning that a little bit of HTML massage is needed from time to time.<\/p>\n

Whilst editing such a post today I came across a collection of useful tables for ASCII codes, HTML codes, control codes and conversion<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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