In HTML (and thus livejournal) &#N; represents unicode character N, for decimal N. (Also &#xH; for hexadecimal H, which is handy since many code charts prefer hex.) This is true regardless of the character encoding used to transfer the document.
Unicode characters 0-127 and 160-255 match the familiar ISO-8859-1/Windows-1252 values that you're (presumably) getting with that keyboard rune (which is probably somewhat OS-specific). I think 128-159 match ISO-8859-1 (they certainly don't match windows-1252) but since they're all control characters it's not a very interesting question.
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Date: 2005-04-06 01:01 pm (UTC)In HTML (and thus livejournal) &#N; represents unicode character N, for decimal N. (Also &#xH; for hexadecimal H, which is handy since many code charts prefer hex.) This is true regardless of the character encoding used to transfer the document.
Unicode characters 0-127 and 160-255 match the familiar ISO-8859-1/Windows-1252 values that you're (presumably) getting with that keyboard rune (which is probably somewhat OS-specific). I think 128-159 match ISO-8859-1 (they certainly don't match windows-1252) but since they're all control characters it's not a very interesting question.
Unicode.org has a full set of code charts.