🏳️Alan Wood’s Web site

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Alan Wood’s website, including pesticide common names, Unicode, HTML 4 entities, Symbol font, character sets, and Olympus close-up photography equipment.

[Compendium of Pesticide Common Names](https://pesticidecompendium.bcpc.org/)

Nomenclature data for over 1800 active ingredients of pesticides, plus indexes of common names, systematic names, molecular formulae and CAS Registry Numbers, and a classification of pesticides. (Transferred to British Crop Production Council)

Provisionally-approved ISO common names are announced on the [News page](https://committee.iso.org/sites/tc81/home/news.html) of the [ISO/TC 81 website](https://committee.iso.org/home/tc81).

[Olympus OM system close-up and macro equipment](olympus/index.html)

Original photographs, descriptions of the equipment, and reproductions of the instruction leaflets and manuals. (Updated 10th February 2025)

[Olympus microscopes and photomicrographic equipment](olympus/microscopes.html)

Information on equipment for photomicrography with BH-2, CK2, IMT-2, SZ4045, SZH and older microscopes, and downloads of microscope catalogues and instructions. (Updated 27th February 2025)

[Quekett Microscopical Club](https://www.quekett.org)

The Club’s website was professionally designed, so my role as webmaster mostly involved learning WordPress, uploading content from old versions of the site and writing reports on meetings.

[Alan Wood’s microscopical diary](blog/index.html)

Blog about my exploits in microscopy, photomicrography and macro photography. (Updated 13th March 2025)

[Alan Wood’s Unicode resources](unicode/index.html)

Information about Web browsers, fonts, editors, word processors and various utilities that support Unicode, plus pages for most of the Unicode ranges that enable you to test your browsers and fonts. (Updated 12th January 2015)

[Character entity references in HTML 4.01](demos/ent4_frame.html "Updated 28th March 2009")

An indexed list of the 252 named entities (for letters with diacritics, Greek letters and various special characters) that are supported in HTML 4.01.

Character sets:

*   [Microsoft’s ANSI character set](demos/ansi.html "Updated 22nd November 2012")

*   [Apple’s MacRoman character set](demos/macroman.html "Updated 12th November 2000")

*   [Differences between ANSI, ISO-8859-1 and MacRoman](demos/charsetdiffs.html "Updated 12th November 2000")

*   [Microsoft’s Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4)](demos/wgl4.html "Updated 17th August 2007")

*   [Symbol font – Unicode alternatives for Greek and special characters in HTML](demos/symbol.html "Updated 14th December 2016")

*   [Microsoft’s Webdings character set and Unicode equivalents](demos/webdings.html "Updated 8th February 2018")

*   [Microsoft’s Wingdings character set and Unicode equivalents](demos/wingdings.html "Updated 9th February 2018")

*   [Microsoft’s Wingdings 2 character set and Unicode equivalents](demos/wingdings-2.html "Updated 6th May 2017")

*   [Microsoft’s Wingdings 3 character set and Unicode equivalents](demos/wingdings-3.html "Updated 17th August 2017")

Information about your Web browser, detected by:

*   [JavaScript](demos/browserinfo.html "Updated 8th September 2013 - this file tries to create a temporary cookie")

    *   [Browser identification](demos/browser-identification.html "Updated 13th March 2025")

*   [PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor](demos/browserinfo.php "Updated 10th January 2025")

*   [SSI: Server-side includes](demos/browserinfo-ssi.shtml "Updated 10th January 2025")