Appendix D. HTML Character Entities

Table D.1 contains the possible numeric and character entities for the ISO-Latin-1 (ISO8859-1) character set. Where possible, the character is shown.

Note

Not all browsers can display all characters, and some browsers might even display characters different from those that appear in the table. Newer browsers seem to have a better track record for handling character entities, but be sure to test your HTML files extensively with multiple browsers if you intend to use these entities.

Table D.1. ISO-Latin-1 Character Set

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Caution

The following standard codes don't work reliably in most Web browsers. They ...

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