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HTML Character Sets

In addition to the standard ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) character repertoire, we have included a selection of Unicode characters. This is designed as a look-up reference for contributors.

Characters above #160 are sorted by function (alphabetic, diacritic, punctuation, and math/currency), and 63 GIFs are provided for the characters not in the {union set} of {ISO-8859-1} and {Macintosh} (U.S.) character sets.

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Decimal Char Description Entity Notes PostScript
ISO-8859-1 Characters (Supplementary Characters in bottom section)
� -  Unused
	   Horizontal tab    

   Line feed    
 -  Unused

   Carriage Return    
 -  Unused
    Space
  space
!! Exclamation mark     exclam
"" Quotation mark "   quotedbl
## Number sign     numbersign
$$ Dollar sign     dollar
%% Percent sign     percent
&& Ampersand &   ampersand
'' Apostrophe     quotesingle
(( Left parenthesis     parenleft
)) Right parenthesis     parenright
** Asterisk     asterisk
++ Plus sign     plus
,, Comma     comma
-- Hyphen     hyphen
.. Period (fullstop)     period
// Solidus     slash
0 - 90 - 9 Decimal digits
:: Colon     colon
&#59;; Semi-colon     semicolon
&#60;< Less than &lt;   less
&#61;= Equals sign     equal
&#62;> Greater than &gt;   greater
&#63;? Question mark     question
&#64;@ Commercial at     at
&#65; - &#90;A - Z Uppercase letters
&#91;[ Left square bracket     bracketleft
&#92;\ Reverse solidus     backslash
&#93;] Right square bracket     bracketright
&#94;^ Caret     asciicircum
&#95;_ Horizontal bar     underscore
&#96;` Grave accent     grave
&#97; - &#122;a - z Lowercase letters
&#123;{ Left curly brace     braceleft
&#124;| Vertical bar     bar
&#125;} Right curly brace     braceright
&#126;~ Tilde     asciitilde
&#127; - &#159; Unused (truly!)
&#160;  Nonbreaking space &nbsp;   nbspace
nobreakspace
&#192;À Capital A, grave accent &Agrave;   Agrave
&#224;à Small a, grave accent &agrave;   agrave
&#193;Á Capital A, acute accent &Aacute;   Aacute
&#225;á Small a, acute accent &aacute;   aacute
&#194;Â Capital A, circumflex accent &Acirc;   Acircumflex
&#226;â Small a, circumflex accent &acirc;   acircumflex
&#195;Ã Capital A, tilde &Atilde;   Atilde
&#227;ã Small a, tilde &atilde;   atilde
&#196;Ä Capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark &Auml;   Adieresis
&#228;ä Small a, dieresis or umlaut mark &auml;   adieresis
&#197;Å Capital A, ring &Aring;   Aring
&#229;å Small a, ring &aring;   aring
&#198;Æ Capital AE dipthong (ligature) &AElig;   AE
&#230;æ Small ae dipthong (ligature) &aelig;   ae
&#199;Ç Capital C, cedilla &Ccedil;   Ccedilla
&#231;ç Small c, cedilla &ccedil;   ccedilla
&#208;GIF: Ð Capital Eth, Icelandic &ETH; c1 Eth
&#240;GIF: ð Small eth, Icelandic &eth; c1 eth
&#200;È Capital E, grave accent &Egrave;   Egrave
&#232;è Small e, grave accent &egrave;   egrave
&#201;É Capital E, acute accent &Eacute;   Eacute
&#233;é Small e, acute accent &eacute;   eacute
&#202;Ê Capital E, circumflex accent &Ecirc;   Ecircumflex
&#234;ê Small e, circumflex accent &ecirc;   ecircumflex
&#203;Ë Capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark &Euml;   Edieresis
&#235;ë Small e, dieresis or umlaut mark &euml;   edieresis
&#204;Ì Capital I, grave accent &Igrave;   Igrave
&#236;ì Small i, grave accent &igrave;   igrave
&#205;Í Capital I, acute accent &Iacute;   Iacute
&#237;í Small i, acute accent &iacute   iacute
&#206;Î Capital I, circumflex accent &Icirc;   Icircumflex
&#238;î Small i, circumflex accent &icirc;   icircumflex
&#207;Ï Capital I, dieresis or umlaut mark &Iuml;   Idieresis
&#239;ï Small i, dieresis or umlaut mark &iuml;   idieresis
&#181;µ Micro sign &micro;   mu
&#209;Ñ Capital N, tilde &Ntilde;   Ntilde
&#241;ñ Small n, tilde &ntilde;   ntilde
&#210;Ò Capital O, grave accent &Ograve;   Ograve
&#242;ò Small o, grave accent &ograve;   ograve
&#211;Ó Capital O, acute accent &Oacute;   Oacute
&#243;ó Small o, acute accent &oacute;   oacute
&#212;Ô Capital O, circumflex accent &Ocirc;   Ocircumflex
&#244;ô Small o, circumflex accent &ocirc;   ocircumflex
&#213;Õ Capital O, tilde &Otilde;   Otilde
&#245;õ Small o, tilde &otilde;   otilde
&#214;Ö Capital O, dieresis or umlaut mark &Ouml;   Odieresis
&#246;ö Small o, dieresis or umlaut mark &ouml;   odieresis
&#216;Ø Capital O, slash &Oslash;   Oslash
&#248;ø Small o, slash &oslash;   oslash
&#223;ß Small sharp s, German (sz ligature) &szlig;   germandbls
&#222;GIF: Þ Capital THORN, Icelandic &THORN; c1 Thorn
&#254;GIF: þ Small thorn, Icelandic &thorn; c1 thorn
&#217;Ù Capital U, grave accent &Ugrave;   Ugrave
&#249;ù Small u, grave accent &ugrave;   ugrave
&#218;Ú Capital U, acute accent &Uacute;   Uacute
&#250;ú Small u, acute accent &uacute;   uacute
&#219;Û Capital U, circumflex accent &Ucirc;   Ucircumflex
&#251;û Small u, circumflex accent &ucirc;   ucircumflex
&#220;Ü Capital U, dieresis or umlaut mark &Uuml;   Udieresis
&#252;ü Small u, dieresis or umlaut mark &uuml;   udieresis
&#221;GIF: Ý Capital Y, acute accent &Yacute; c1 Yacute
&#253;GIF: ý Small y, acute accent &yacute; c1 yacute
&#255;ÿ Small y, dieresis or umlaut mark &yuml;   ydieresis
&#168;¨ Umlaut &uml;   dieresis
&#175;¯ Macron accent &macr;   macron
&#180;´ Acute accent &acute;   acute
&#184;¸ Cedilla &cedil;   cedilla
&#161;¡ Inverted exclamation &iexcl;   exclamdown
&#191;¿ Inverted question mark &iquest;   questiondown
&#183;· Middle dot &middot;   periodcentered
&#166;GIF: ¦ Broken vertical bar &brvbar; c1 brokenbar
&#171;« Left angle quote &laquo;   guillemotleft
&#187;» Right angle quote &raquo;   guillemotright
&#182; Paragraph sign &para;   paragraph
&#167;§ Section sign &sect;   section
&#169;© Copyright &copy;   copyright
copyrightserif
&#174;® Registered trademark &reg;   registered
registerserif
&#185;GIF: ¹ Superscript one &sup1; c1 onesuperior
&#178;GIF: ² Superscript two &sup2; c1 twosuperior
&#179;GIF: ³ Superscript three &sup3; c1 threesuperior
&#173;­ Soft hyphen &shy; e1 minus(?)
&#215;GIF: × Multiply sign &times; c1 multiply
&#247;÷ Division sign &divide;   divide
&#188;GIF: ¼ Fraction one-fourth &frac14; c1 onequarter
&#189;GIF: ½ Fraction one-half &frac12; c1 onehalf
&#190;GIF: ¾ Fraction three-fourths &frac34; c1 threequarters
&#170;ª Feminine ordinal &ordf;   ordfeminine
&#186;º Masculine ordinal &ordm;   ordmasculine
&#172;¬ Not sign &not;   logicalnot
&#176;° Degree sign &deg;   degree
&#177;± Plus or minus &plusmn;   plusminus
&#164;¤ General currency sign &curren;   currency
&#162;¢ Cent sign &cent;   cent
&#163;£ Pound sterling &pound;   sterling
&#165;¥ Yen sign &yen;   yen

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