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	Hiding email  using ASCII entities A simple encoding using ASCII characters will prevent spammers from getting to your email. ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Computers understand only numbers, therefore ASCII code is a numerical representation of characters. There are close to 254 characters at the moment. Only a small range of them are letters. Some are reserved for html like < and >. A few are not printable, but had their use with teletypes - a long time ago.     Type a single character    Retrieve html code             Show all Every character has three parts : an ampersand (&),  a # and an entity number, and finally a semicolon (;). For an exercise we will encode the word Arachne. We said all characters have &# at the left side and end with ;   Instead of clicking "convert" use TAB to see only the numbers on the above form.  A=65, r=114, a=97, c=99, h=104, n=110, e=101.  Combine this as exercise at the classroom.  All email addresses have a character @ . Can you tell me what is the ASCII.  Yes it is 64. If you don't want to write the whole thing you can   just write  &#64; instead of @. That single break will confuse the spiders. I hope they are not getting smarter. All email addresses also have a dot : .com. What is the entity number for dot. Yes it is 46. Just put &#64; instead of the dot on your post.  Next we will see how to hide email address using JavaScript. 1 - Homework : generate any email address & display it encoded 2 - Write Latin or Greek characters like CÆSAR, and decimals like ½