Quire structures are coded in this manual quite similarly to one of the ways they are encoded in the database. The only difference is in the way in which hexadecimal Unicode characters are described:
Rather than using (hexa)decimal codes for characters, named entities can also be used.
|+Commonly Used Characters
!Character||Named||Hex
|π||<nowiki>&pi;</nowiki>||<nowiki>&#x03C0;</nowiki>
|χ||<nowiki>&chi;</nowiki>||<nowiki>&#x03C7;</nowiki>
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|+Examples of Fingerprint Coding
!Desired Result||Database Encoding||Wiki Encoding
|π1 *<sup>8</sup> A-F<sup>8</sup>||<nowiki>«03C0»1 *<sup>8</sup> A-F<sup>8</sup></nowiki>||<nowiki>&#x03C0;1 *<sup>8</sup> A-F<sup>8</sup></nowiki><br/>or<br/><nowiki>&pi;1 *<sup>8</sup> A-F<sup>8</sup></nowiki>
|A-P<sup>4</sup> <sup>2</sup>A-C<sup>4</sup>||<nowiki>A-P<sup>4</sup> <sup>2</sup>A-C<sup>4</sup></nowiki>||<nowiki>A-P<sup>4</sup> <sup>2</sup>A-C<sup>4</sup></nowiki>
|A-H<sup>8</sup> χ1 I-K<sup>8</sup>2χ<sup>2</sup>||<nowiki>A-H<sup>8</sup> «03C7»1 I-K<sup>8</sup>2«03C7»<sup>2</sup></nowiki>||<nowiki>A-H<sup>8</sup> &#x03C7;1 I-K<sup>8</sup>2&#x03C7;<sup>2</sup></nowiki><br/>or<br/><nowiki>A-H<sup>8</sup> &chi;1 I-K<sup>8</sup>2&chi;<sup>2</sup></nowiki>
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