[Appendix D] Character Entities

The following table collects the defined standard, proposed, and several nonstandard, but generally supported, character entities for HTML.

Entity names, if defined, appear for their respective characters and can be used in the HTML character-entity sequence &name; to define any character for display by the browser. Otherwise, or alternatively for named characters, use the character's three-digit numeral value in the sequence &#nnn; to specially define an HTML character entity. Actual characters, however, may or may not be displayed by the browser depending on the computer platform and user-selected font for display.

Not all 256 characters in the ISO character set appear in the table. Missing ones are not recognized by the browser as either named or numeric entities.

To be sure that your documents are fully compliant with the HTML 2.0 standard, use only those named character entities whose conformance column is blank. Characters whose conformance column contains a ``P'' (Proposed) are generally supported by the current browsers, although not part of the HTML standard. Defy compliance by using the nonstandard (N) entities.

Numeric	Named
Entity	Entity	Symbol	Description	Conformance
			Horizontal tab
			Line feed
			Carriage return
			Space
!		!	Exclamation point
"	"	`quot`	Quotation mark
#		#	Hash mark
$		$	Dollar sign
%		%	Percent sign
&	&	&	Ampersand
'		'	Apostrophe
(		(	Left parenthesis
)		)	Right parenthesis
*		*	Asterisk
+		+	Plus sign
,		,	Comma
-		-	Hyphen
.		.	Period
/		/	Slash
0 - 9		0 - 9	Digits 0 - 9
:		:	Colon
;		;	Semicolon
<	<	<	Less than
=		=	Equals sign
>	>	>	Greater than
?		?	Question mark
@		@	Commercial at sign
A - Z		A - Z	Letters A - Z
[		[	Left square bracket
\		\|	Backslash
]		]	Right square bracket
^		^	Caret
_		_	Underscore
`		grave	Grave accent
a - z		a - z	Letters a - z
{		{	Left curly brace
\|		\|	Vertical bar
}		}	Right curly brace
~		~	Tilde
		,		N
		(florin)	Florin	N
		''	Right double quote	N
		...	Ellipsis	N
		dagger	Dagger	N
		Dagger	Double dagger	N
		circ	Circumflex	N
		%	Permil	N
		_		N
		<	Less than sign	N
		OE	Capital OE ligature	N
		`	Left single quote	N
		'	Right single quote	N
		``	Left double quote	N
		''	Right double quote	N
		o	Bullet	N
		--	Em dash	N
		-	En dash	N
		~	Tilde	N
		trade	Trademark	N
		_		N
		>	Greater than sign	N
		oe	Small oe ligature	N
		Yuml	Capital Y, umlaut	N
			Nonbreaking space	P
¡	¡	iexcl	Inverted exclamation point	P
¢	¢	cent	Cent sign	P
£	£	pund	Pound sign	P
¤	¤	curren	General currency sign	P
¥	¥	yen	Yen sign	P
¦	¦	\|	Broken vertical bar	P
§	§	sect	Section sign	P
¨	¨	die	Umlaut	P
©	©	©	Copyright	P
ª	ª	ordf	Feminine ordinal	P
«	«	laquo	Left angle quote	P
¬	¬	not	Not sign	P
		-	Soft hyphen	P
®	®	reg	Registered trademark	P
¯	¯	macr	Macron accent	P
°	°	deg	Degree sign	P
±	±	+/-	Plus or minus	P
²	²	²	Superscript 2	P
³	³	³	Superscript 3	P
´	´	acute	Acute accent	P
µ	µ	mu	Micro sign (Greek mu)	P
¶	¶	para	Paragraph sign	P
·	·	.	Middle dot	P
¸	¸	cedil	Cedilla	P
¹	¹	¹	Superscript 1	P
º	º	ordm	Masculine ordinal	P
»	»	raquo	Right angle quote	P
¼	¼	1/4	Fraction one-fourth	P
½	½	1/2	Fraction one-half	P
¾	¾	3/4	Fraction three-fourths	P
¿	¿	iquest	Inverted question mark	P
À	À	À	Capital A, grave accent
Á	Á	Á	Capital A, acute accent
Â	Â	Â	Capital A, circumflex accent
Ã	Ã	Ã	Capital A, tilde
Ä	Ä	Ä	Capital A, umlaut
Å	Å	Å ;	Capital A, ring
Æ	Æ	Æ	Capital AE ligature
Ç	Ç	Ç	Capital C, cedilla
È	È	È	Capital E, grave accent
É	É	É ;	Capital E, acute accent
Ê	Ê	Ê	Capital E, circumflex accent
Ë	Ë	Ë	Capital E, umlaut
Ì	Ì	Ì	Capital I, grave accent
Í	Í	Í	Capital I, acute accent
Î	Î	Î	Capital I, circumflex accent
Ï	Ï	Ï	Capital I, umlaut
Ð	Ð	Ð	Capital eth, Icelandic
Ñ	Ñ	Ñ	Capital N, tilde
Ò	Ò	Ò	Capital O, grave accent
Ó	Ó	Ó	Capital O, acute accent
Ô	Ô	Ô	Capital O, circumflex accent
Õ	Õ	Õ	Capital O, tilde
Ö	Ö	Ö	Capital O, umlaut
×	×	x	Multiply sign	P
Ø	Ø	Ø	Capital O, slash
Ù	Ù	Ù	Capital U, grave accent
Ú	Ú	Ú	Capital U, acute accent
Û	Û	Û	Capital U, circumflex accent
Ü	Ü	Ü	Capital U, umlaut
Ý	Ý	Y	Capital Y, acute accent
Þ	Þ	Þ	Capital thorn, Icelandic
ß	ß	ß	Small sz ligature, German
à	à	à	Small a, grave accent
á	á	á	Small a, acute accent
â	â	â	Small a, circumflex accent
ã	ã	ã	Small a, tilde
ä	ä	ä	Small a, umlaut
å	å	å	Small a, ring
æ	æ	æ	Small ae ligature
ç	ç	ç	Small c, cedilla
è	è	è	Small e, grave accent
é	é	é	Small e, acute accent
ê	ê	ê	Small e, circumflex accent
ë	ë	ë	Small e, umlaut
ì	ì	ì	Small i, grave accent
í	í	í	Small i, acute accent
î	î	î	Small i, circumflex accent
ï	ï	ï	Small i, umlaut
ð	ð	part	Small eth, Icelandic
ñ	ñ	ñ	Small n, tilde
ò	ò	ò	Small o, grave accent
ó	ó	ó	Small o, acute accent
ô	ô	ô	Small o, circumflex accent
õ	õ	õ	Small o, tilde
ö	ö	ö	Small o, umlaut
÷	÷	/	Division sign	P
ø	ø	ø	Small o, slash
ù	ù	ù	Small u, grave accent
ú	ú	ú	Small u, acute accent
û	û	û	Small u, circumflex accent
ü	ü	ü	Small u, umlaut
ý	ý	ý	Small y, acute accent
þ	þ	þ	Small thorn, Icelandic
ÿ	ÿ	ÿ	Small y, umlaut


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