For example, you may need to use French or German phrases on your website pages, or display HTML code examples on your pages. For this purpose the curly bracket characters, the opening “<“ and the closing “>” are used. Defines the first and last characters of the tag. For example, to display a "greater than sign" or an opening "<" curly brace, use "& lt ;"Use the. letters are used. Each letter has&-ASCIII have a code and a specific& #**** format. **** is a number. pointing&-ASCIIcode, the appropriate symbols are printed on the page. Also, some characters have&-nameI have a code,&there is****format. **** is the alphabetic name of the character. Below is a table of the most frequently used characters.
special character
common name | ISOLatin-1 Numeric Entities | &-ASCII | &-name |
quotation marks | "" | & # 034; | " |
ampersand | & | & # 038; | & |
no break space | & # 160; | | |
Inverted exclamation point | ¡ | & # 161; | &ixcl; |
cent | ¢ | & # 162; | & cent; |
GBP | ££ | & # 163; | &lb; |
common currency | ¤ | & # 164; | & curren; |
Yen symbol | ¥ | & # 165; | &Circle; |
broken vertical bar | ¦ | & # 166; | ¦ |
clause symbol | § | & # 167; | & sect; |
diaeresis | ¨ | & # 168; | ¨ |
Copyright | © | & # 169; | © |
feminine ordinal | ª | & # 170; | & ordf; |
left guillemot | « | & # 171; | » |
not sig | ¬ | & # 172; | &No; |
soft hyphen | – | & # 173; | ­ |
registered trademark | ® | & # 174; | ® |
Macron | ¯ | & # 175; | ¯ |
degree symbol | °° | & # 176; | & deg; |
plus or minus | ±± | & # 177; | ± |
superscript 2 | ² | & # 178; | ² |
superscript 3 | ³ | & # 179; | ³ |
acute accent | ´ | & # 180; | &acuate; |
Mu | µ | & # 181; | & micro; |
paragraph mark | ¶ | & # 182; | ¶ |
dot in the middle | ・ | & # 183; | · |
cedilla | ¸ | & # 184; | & cedil; |
Superscript 1 | ¹ | & # 185; | ¹ |
masculine ordinal | º | & # 186; | º |
right guillemot | »» | & # 187; | » |
a quarter of a fraction | ¼ | & # 188; | ¼ |
half a fraction | ½ | & # 189; | ½ |
3/4 of a fraction | ¾ | & # 190; | ¾ |
inverted question mark | ¿ | & # 191; | & iquest; |
UPPERCASE LATIN-1 CHARACTERS
name | character | &-ASCII | &-name |
capital a, grave accent | NS | & # 192; | À |
capital A, acute accent | NS | & # 193; | &Acute; |
uppercase a, circumflex | NS | & # 194; | &Acirc; |
capital A, tilde | NS | & # 195; | Ã |
capital a, diaeresis | NS | & # 196; | & Auml; |
Capital A, Ring | NS | & # 197; | ˚ |
capital AE diphthong | Æ | & # 198; | Æ |
Capital C, Cedilla | NS | & # 199; | & Ccedil; |
capital E, grave accent | È | & # 200; | & Egrave; |
capital E, acute accent | E | & # 201; | &Eacute; |
uppercase E, circumflex | Ê | & # 202; | & Ecirc; |
capital E, diaeresis | Ë | & # 203; | Ë |
Capital I, Axane Grave | Me | & # 204; | & Igrave; |
Capital I, Acute Accent | Me | & # 205; | & Iacute; |
Capital I, Circumflex Accent | Me | & # 206; | Î |
Capital I, Dialesis | Me | & # 207; | & Iuml; |
Capital S | NS | & # 208; | & ETH; |
Capital N, Tilde | NS | & # 209; | & Ntilde; |
Capital O, Axen Grave | Ò | & # 210; | & Ograve; |
capital O, acute accent | Ó | & # 211; | & Oacute; |
capital o, circumflex | Ô | & # 212; | Ô |
capital o, tilde | Õ | & # 213; | Õ |
Capital O, Dialesis | Ö | & # 214; | Ö |
multiplication sign | XX | & # 215; | × |
uppercase O, forward slash | Ø | & # 216; | & Oslash; |
capital U, grave accent | Ù | & # 217; | & Ugrave; |
uppercase U, acute accent | Ú | & # 218; | Ú |
uppercase u, circumflex | Û | & # 219; | Û |
uppercase U, diaeresis | U | & # 220; | Ü |
uppercase Y, acute accent | Ý | & # 221; | & Yacute; |
Capital Thorn | NS | & # 222; | & THORN; |
german sz ligature | NS | & # 223; | ß |
lowercase LATIN-1 letters
name | character | &-ASCII | &-name |
lowercase a, grave accent | NS | & # 224; | à |
lowercase a, acute accent | NS | & # 225; | & aacute; |
lowercase a, circumflex | NS | & # 226; | â |
lowercase a, tilde | NS | & # 227; | & atilde; |
lowercase a, diaeresis | NS | & # 228; | ä |
lowercase a, ring | NS | & # 229; | ˚ |
lowercase ae ligature | æ | & # 230; | æ |
lowercase c, cedilla | NS | & # 231; | & ccedil; |
lowercase e, grave accent | è | & # 232; | & egrave; |
lowercase e, acute accent | é | & # 233; | é |
lowercase e, circumflex | ê | & # 234; | ê |
lowercase e, diaeresis | l | & # 235; | &eml; |
lowercase i, grave accent | Me | & # 236; | & igrave; |
lowercase i, acute accent | Me | & # 237; | í |
lowercase i, circumflex | Me | & # 238; | & icirc; |
lowercase i, dieresis | Me | & # 239; | ï |
lowercase eth | NS | & # 240; | & eth; |
lowercase n, tilde | NS | & # 241; | ñ |
lowercase o, grave accent | ò | & # 242; | ò |
lowercase o, acute accent | ó | & # 243; | & o cute; |
lowercase o, circumflex | ô | & # 244; | & ocirc; |
lowercase o, tilde | õ | & # 245; | õ |
lowercase o, dieresis | o | & # 246; | ö |
division sign | ÷ | & # 247; | & Divide; |
lowercase o, forward slash | ø | & # 248; | ø |
lowercase u, grave accent | ù | & # 249; | ù |
lowercase u, acute accent | ú | & # 250; | ú |
lowercase u, circumflex | û | & # 251; | û |
lowercase u, diaeresis | u | & # 252; | ü |
lowercase y, acute accent | ý | & # 253; | & yacute; |
lowercase thorns | NS | & # 254; | & thorn; |
lowercase y, diaeresis | ÿ | & # 255; | ÿ |