Character Entity Set(s)

This section is undergoing revision ...

In particular, we need to add a more complete list of character entities, e.g. for the characters below decimal 128 and missing codes such as currency signs.

The following entity names are used in HTML, always prefixed by ampersand (&) and followed by a semicolon as shown.

They represent particular graphic characters which have special meanings in places in the markup, or may not be part of the character set available to the writer.


Numeric and Special Graphic Entities

The following table lists each of the supported characters specified in the Numeric and Special Graphic entity set, along with its name, syntax for use, and description.

This list is derived from "ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Numeric and Special Graphic//EN" however HTML does not provide support for the entire entity set. Only the entities listed below are supported.

Name             Syntax       Description            
lt              <        Less than sign
gt              >        Greater than sign
amp             &       Ampersand
quot            "      Double quote sign

ISO Latin 1 Character Entities

The following table lists each of the characters specified in the Added Latin 1 entity set, along with its name, syntax for use, and description.

This list is derived from "ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Added Latin 1//EN", and HTML does provide support for the entire entity set.

Name            Syntax      Description            
Aacute          Á    Capital A, acute accent
Agrave          À    Capital A, grave accent
Acirc           Â     Capital A, circumflex accent
Atilde          Ã    Capital A, tilde
Aring           Å     Capital A, ring
Auml            Ä      Capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark
AElig           Æ     Capital AE dipthong (ligature)
Ccedil          Ç    Capital C, cedilla
Eacute          É    Capital E, acute accent
Egrave          È    Capital E, grave accent
Ecirc           Ê     Capital E, circumflex accent
Euml            Ë      Capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark
Iacute          Í    Capital I, acute accent
Igrave          Ì    Capital I, grave accent
Icirc           Î     Capital I, circumflex accent
Iuml            Ï      Capital I, dieresis or umlaut mark
ETH             Ð       Capital Eth, Icelandic
Ntilde          Ñ    Capital N, tilde
Oacute          Ó    Capital O, acute accent
Ograve          Ò    Capital O, grave accent
Ocirc           Ô     Capital O, circumflex accent
Otilde          Õ    Capital O, tilde
Ouml            Ö      Capital O, dieresis or umlaut mark
Oslash          Ø    Capital O, slash
Uacute          Ú    Capital U, acute accent
Ugrave          Ù    Capital U, grave accent
Ucirc           Û     Capital U, circumflex accent
Uuml            Ü      Capital U, dieresis or umlaut mark
Yacute          Ý    Capital Y, acute accent

THORN           Þ     Capital THORN, Icelandic
szlig           ß     Small sharp s, German (sz ligature)

aacute          á    Small a, acute accent
agrave          à    Small a, grave accent
acirc           â     Small a, circumflex accent
atilde          ã    Small a, tilde
atilde          ã    Small a, tilde
auml            ä      Small a, dieresis or umlaut mark
aelig           æ     Small ae dipthong (ligature)
ccedil          ç    Small c, cedilla
eacute          é    Small e, acute accent
egrave          è    Small e, grave accent
ecirc           ê     Small e, circumflex accent
euml            ë      Small e, dieresis or umlaut mark
iacute          í    Small i, acute accent
igrave          ì    Small i, grave accent
icirc           î     Small i, circumflex accent
iuml            ï      Small i, dieresis or umlaut mark
eth             ð       Small eth, Icelandic
ntilde          ñ    Small n, tilde
oacute          ó    Small o, acute accent
ograve          ò    Small o, grave accent
ocirc           ô     Small o, circumflex accent
otilde          õ    Small o, tilde
ouml            ö      Small o, dieresis or umlaut mark
oslash          ø    Small o, slash
uacute          ú    Small u, acute accent
ugrave          ù    Small u, grave accent
ucirc           û     Small u, circumflex accent
uuml            ü      Small u, dieresis or umlaut mark
yacute          ý    Small y, acute accent
thorn           þ     Small thorn, Icelandic
yuml            ÿ      Small y, dieresis or umlaut mark

Numerical Character References

This list, sorted numerically, is derived from the ISO 8859/1 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character set:

Reference           Description
�-         Unused 
	               Horizontal tab

               Line feed
-         Unused

&32;                Space
&33;                Exclamation mark
&34;                Quotation mark
&35;                Number sign
&36;                Dollar sign
&37;                Percent sign
&38;                Ampersand
&39;                Apostrophe
&40;                Left parenthesis
&41;                Right parenthesis
&42;                Asterisk
&43;                Plus sign
&44;                Comma
&45;                Hyphen
&46;                Period (fullstop)
&47;                Solidus (slash)

0 - 9       Digits 0-9

&58;                Colon
&59;                Semi-colon
&60;                Less than
&61;                Equals aign
&62;                Greater than
&63;                Question mark
&64;                Commercial at
     
A-Z         Letters A-Z

&91;                Left square bracket
&92;                Reverse solidus (backslash)
&93;                Right square bracket
&95;                Horizontal bar
&96;                Acute accent

a-z        Letters a-z

&123;               Left curly brace
&124;               Vertical bar
&125;               Right curly brace
&126;               Tilde

-        Unused

&161;               Inverted exclamation
&162;               Cent sign
&163;               Pound sterling
&164;               General currency sign
&165;               Yen sign
&166;               Broken vertical bar
&167;               Section sign
&168;               Umlaut (dieresis)
&169;               Copyright
&170;               Feminine ordinal
&171;               Left angle quote, guillemotleft
&172;               Not sign
&173;               Soft hyphen
&174;               Registered trademark
&175;               Macron accent
&176;               Degree sign
&177;               Plus or minus
&178;               Superscript two
&179;               Superscript three
&180;               Acute accent
&181;               Micro sign
&182;               Paragraph sign
&183;               Middle dot
&184;               Cedilla
&185;               Superscript one
&186;               Masculine ordinal
&187;               Right angle quote, guillemotright
&188;               Fraction one-fourth
&189;               Fraction one-half
&190;               Fraction three-fourths
&191;               Inverted question mark

&192;               Capital A, acute accent
&193;               Capital A, grave accent
&194;               Capital A, circumflex accent
&195;               Capital A, tilde
&196;               Capital A, ring
&197;               Capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark
&198;               Capital AE dipthong (ligature)
&199;               Capital C, cedilla
&200;               Capital E, acute accent
&201;               Capital E, grave accent
&202;               Capital E, circumflex accent
&203;               Capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark
&204;               Capital I, acute accent
&205;               Capital I, grave accent
&206;               Capital I, circumflex accent
&207;               Capital I, dieresis or umlaut mark
&208;               Capital Eth, Icelandic
&209;               Capital N, tilde
&210;               Capital O, acute accent
&211;               Capital O, grave accent
&212;               Capital O, circumflex accent
&213;               Capital O, tilde
&214;               Capital O, dieresis or umlaut mark

&215;               Multiply sign

&216;               Capital O, slash
&217;               Capital U, acute accent
&218;               Capital U, grave accent
&219;               Capital U, circumflex accent
&220;               Capital U, dieresis or umlaut mark
&221;               Capital Y, acute accent

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