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Character Entity References
The following are symbols which may confuse some browsers. Should they be interpreted as code or text? If you want these characters to
display on a web page as text, it's best to use their named or numeric entities.
| Symbol to show on your web page | Named entity | Numeric entity |
| " | " | " |
| & | & | & |
| < | < | < |
| > | > | > |
| – | – | – |
| — | — | — |
| ‘ | ‘ | ‘ |
| ’ | ’ | ’ |
| “ | “ | “ |
| ” | ” | ” |
More character entity references for ISO 8859-1 characters
These are symbols which may or may not be on your keyboard, and their corresponding Named and Numeric entities
defined for HTML. You can use these entities in the HTML code to display these symbols on the browser,
but whether or not these symbols actually get shown depends on the computer platform and font used.
Using these entities however does give compliance with html/xhtml standards.
| Symbol to show | Named entity | Numeric entity |
| non-breaking space | |   |
| ¡ | ¡ | ¡ |
| ¢ | ¢ | ¢ |
| £ | £ | £ |
| ¤ | ¤ | ¤ |
| ¥ | ¥ | ¥ |
| ¦ | ¦ | ¦ |
| § | § | § |
| ¨ | ¨ | ¨ |
| © | © | © |
| ª | ª | ª |
| « | « | « |
| ¬ | ¬ | ¬ |
| | ­ | ­ |
| ® | ® | ® |
| ¯ | ¯ | ¯ |
| ° | ° | ° |
| ± | ± | ± |
| ² | ² | ² |
| ³ | ³ | ³ |
| ´ | ´ | ´ |
| µ | µ | µ |
| ¶ | ¶ | ¶ |
| · | · | · |
| ¸ | ¸ | ¸ |
| ¹ | ¹ | ¹ |
| º | º | º |
| » | » | » |
| ¼ | ¼ | ¼ |
| ½ | ½ | ½ |
| ¾ | ¾ | ¾ |
| ¿ | ¿ | ¿ |
| ™ | ™ | |
ISO Foreign characters
| Symbol to show | Named entity | Numeric entity |
| À | À | À |
| Á | Á | Á |
| Â | Â | Â |
| Ã | Ã | Ã |
| Ä | Ä | Ä |
| Å | Å | Å |
| Æ | Æ | Æ |
| Ç | Ç | Ç |
| È | È | È |
| É | É | É |
| Ê | Ê | Ê |
| Ë | Ë | Ë |
| Ì | Ì | Ì |
| Í | Í | Í |
| Î | Î | Î |
| Ï | Ï | Ï |
| Ð | Ð | Ð |
| Ñ | Ñ | Ñ |
| Ò | Ò | Ò |
| Ó | Ó | Ó |
| Ô | Ô | Ô |
| Õ | Õ | Õ |
| Ö | Ö | Ö |
| × | × | × |
| Ø | Ø | Ø |
| Ù | Ù | Ù |
| Ú | Ú | Ú |
| Û | Û | Û |
| Ü | Ü | Ü |
| Ý | Ý | Ý |
| Þ | Þ | Þ |
| ß | ß | ß |
| à | à | à |
| á | á | á |
| â | â | â |
| ã | ã | ã |
| ä | ä | ä |
| å | å | å |
| æ | æ | æ |
| ç | ç | ç |
| è | è | è |
| é | é | é |
| ê | ê | ê |
| ë | ë | ë |
| ì | ì | ì |
| í | í | í |
| î | î | î |
| ï | ï | ï |
| ð | ð | ð |
| ñ | ñ | ñ |
| ò | ò | ò |
| ó | ó | ó |
| ô | ô | ô |
| õ | õ | õ |
| ö | ö | ö |
| ÷ | ÷ | ÷ |
| ø | ø | ø |
| ù | ù | ù |
| ú | ú | ú |
| û | û | û |
| ü | ü | ü |
| ý | ý | ý |
| þ | þ | þ |
| ÿ | ÿ | ÿ |
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