Special (X)HTML Characters
ISO8859-1 & Some Commonly Used
Presentation by Dennis Struck
2 October 2005
Jointly for Data Engineering &
Colorado Technical University

Description (XHTML Key Characters)   Symbol  Dec Num Code   
===================================  ======= ======= ========
quotation mark                       "       "   "   
ampersand                            &       &   &    
less-than sign                       <       &#60;   &lt;     
greater-than sign                    >       &#62;   &gt;     

Description (Common EN Kybd Chars)   Symbol  Dec Num Code   
===================================  ======= ======= ========
horizontal tab                               &#09;     
Line feed                                    &#10;     
Carriage Return                              &#13;     
Space                                        &#32;     
Exclamation mark                     !       &#33;     
Quotation mark                       "       &#34;     
Number sign                          #       &#35;     
Dollar sign                          $       &#36;     
Percent sign                         %       &#37;     
Ampersand                            &       &#38;     
Apostrophe                           '       &#39;     
Left parenthesis                     (       &#40;     
Right parenthesis                    )       &#41;     
Asterisk                             *       &#42;     
Plus sign                            +       &#43;     
Comma                                ,       &#44;     
Hyphen                               -       &#45;     
Period (fullstop)                    .       &#46;      
Solidus (slash)                      /       &#47;     
Digits 0-9                           0-9     &#48; - &#57;        
Colon                                :       &#58;     
Semi-colon                           ;       &#59;      
Less than                            <       &#60;     
Equals sign                          =       &#61;     
Greater than                         >       &#62;     
Question mark                        ?       &#63;     
Commercial at                        @       &#64;     
Letters A-Z                          A-Z     &#65; - &#90;   
Left square bracket                  [       &#91;     
Reverse solidus (backslash)          \       &#92;             
Right square bracket                 ]       &#93;     
Caret                                ^       &#94;     
Horizontal bar (underscore)          _       &#95;          
Acute accent                         `       &#96;
Letters a-z                          a-z     &#97; - &#122;  
Left curly brace                     {       &#123;   
Vertical bar (pipe)                  |       &#124;   
Right curly brace                    }       &#125;   
Tilde                                ~       &#126;   


Unknown?                                    &#127;
Euro                                 €      &#128;   &euro;
Unknown?                                    &#129;
Comma                                ‚      &#130;
Function                             ƒ      &#131;
Low angled double quote              „      &#132;
                                     …      &#133;
                                     †      &#134;
                                     ‡      &#135;
                                     ˆ      &#136;
                                     ‰      &#137;
capital S, circumflex mark           Š      &#138;
Small less than                      ‹      &#139;
capital CE                           Œ      &#140;
Unknown?                             �       &#141;
Large Z, circumflex mark             Ž      &#142;
Unknown?                             �       &#143;
Unknown?                             �       &#144;
Left single quote                    ‘      &#145;
Right single quote                   ’      &#146;
Left double quote                    “      &#147;
Right double quote                   ”      &#148;
Solid centered circle                •      &#149;
Hyphen                               –      &#150;
Long dash                            —      &#151;
Tilde                                ˜      &#152;
Trademark                            ™      &#153;
Small s, dieresis or umlaut mark     š      &#154;
Small greater than                   ›      &#155;
Small oe                             œ      &#156;
Unknown?                             �       &#157;
Small z, circumflex mark             ž      &#158;
capital y, dieresis or umlaut mark   Ÿ      &#159


Description                          Symbol  Dec Num Code   
===================================  ======= ======= ========
non-breaking space                           &#160;  &nbsp;   
inverted exclamation                 ¡       &#161;  &iexcl;
left side single quote               ‘               &lsquo;
right side single quote              ’               &rsquo; 
broken vertical bar                  ¦       &#166;  &brvbar; 
section sign                         §       &#167;  &sect; 
umlaut (dieresis)                    ¨       &#168;  &uml;  
copyright                            ©       &#169;  &copy;  

cent sign                            ¢       &#162;  &cent; 
pound sterling                       £       &#163;  &pound; 
general currency sign                ¤       &#164;  &curren; 
yen sign                             ¥       &#165;  &yen;  
dollar sign (key bd, shift 4)        $       &#36;  
cent sign                            ¢               &cent;
euro sign                            €               &euro;

feminine ordinal                     ª       &#170;  &ordf; 
left angle quote, guillemotleft      «       &#171;  &laquo; 
right angle quote                    »               &raquo; 

not sign                             ¬       &#172;  &not;
soft hyphen (partial blank space)            &#173;  &shy; 
registered trademark                 ®       &#174;  &reg; 
macron accent                        ¯       &#175;  &macr; 
degree sign                          °       &#176;  &deg;  
plus or minus                        ±       &#177;  &plusmn; 
multiply sign                        ×       &#215;  &times; 
division sign                        ÷       &#247;  &divide; 
superscript one                      ¹       &#185;  &sup1; 
superscript two                      ²       &#178;  &sup2; 
superscript three                    ³       &#179;  &sup3; 

acute accent                         ´       &#180;  &acute;  
micro sign                           µ       &#181;  &micro;  
paragraph sign                       ¶       &#182;  &para; 
middle dot                           ·       &#183;  &middot; 
cedilla                              ¸       &#184;  &cedil;  
masculine ordinal                    º       &#186;  &ordm;  
right angle quote, guillemotright    »       &#187;  &raquo;  
fraction one-fourth                  ¼       &#188;  &frac14; 
fraction one-half                    ½       &#189;  &frac12; 

fraction three-fourths               ¾       &#190;  &frac34; 
inverted question mark               ¿       &#191;  &iquest; 
capital A, grave accent              À       &#192;  &Agrave; 
capital A, acute accent              Á       &#193;  &Aacute; 
capital A, circumflex accent         Â       &#194;  &Acirc; 
capital A, tilde                     Ã       &#195;  &Atilde; 
capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark   Ä       &#196;  &Auml;  
capital A, ring                      Å       &#197;  &Aring; 
capital AE diphthong (ligature)      Æ       &#198;  &AElig;  
capital C, cedilla                   Ç       &#199;  &Ccedil; 

capital E, grave accent              È       &#200;  &Egrave;
capital E, acute accent              É       &#201;  &Eacute;
capital E, circumflex accent         Ê       &#202;  &Ecirc; 
capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark   Ë       &#203;  &Euml; 
capital I, grave accent              Ì       &#204;  &Igrave; 
capital I, acute accent              Í       &#205;  &Iacute; 
capital I, circumflex accent         Î       &#206;  &Icirc; 
capital I, dieresis or umlaut mark   Ï       &#207;  &Iuml;  
capital Eth, Icelandic               Ð       &#208;  &ETH;  
capital N, tilde                     Ñ       &#209;  &Ntilde; 

capital O, grave accent              Ò       &#210;  &Ograve; 
capital O, acute accent              Ó       &#211;  &Oacute; 
capital O, circumflex accent         Ô       &#212;  &Ocirc; 
capital O, tilde                     Õ       &#213;  &Otilde; 
capital O, dieresis or umlaut mark   Ö       &#214;  &Ouml; 
multiply sign                        ×       &#215;  &times; 
capital O, slash                     Ø       &#216;  &Oslash; 
capital U, grave accent              Ù       &#217;  &Ugrave; 
capital U, acute accent              Ú       &#218;  &Uacute; 
capital U, circumflex accent         Û       &#219;  &Ucirc;  

capital U, dieresis or umlaut mark   Ü       &#220;  &Uuml; 
capital Y, acute accent              Ý       &#221;  &Yacute; 
capital THORN, Icelandic             Þ       &#222;  &THORN;  
small sharp s, German (sz ligature)  ß       &#223;  &szlig; 
small a, grave accent                à       &#224;  &agrave; 
small a, acute accent                á       &#225;  &aacute; 
small a, circumflex accent           â       &#226;  &acirc; 
small a, tilde                       ã       &#227;  &atilde; 
small a, dieresis or umlaut mark     ä       &#228;  &auml; 
small a, ring                        å       &#229;  &aring; 

small ae diphthong (ligature)        æ       &#230;  &aelig;  
small c, cedilla                     ç       &#231;  &ccedil; 
small e, grave accent                è       &#232;  &egrave; 
small e, acute accent                é       &#233;  &eacute; 
small e, circumflex accent           ê       &#234;  &ecirc; 
small e, dieresis or umlaut mark     ë       &#235;  &euml; 
small i, grave accent                ì       &#236;  &igrave; 
small i, acute accent                í       &#237;  &iacute; 
small i, circumflex accent           î       &#238;  &icirc; 
small i, dieresis or umlaut mark     ï       &#239;  &iuml; 

small eth, Icelandic                 ð       &#240;  &eth;  
small n, tilde                       ñ       &#241;  &ntilde; 
small o, grave accent                ò       &#242;  &ograve; 
small o, acute accent                ó       &#243;  &oacute; 
small o, circumflex accent           ô       &#244;  &ocirc; 
small o, tilde                       õ       &#245;  &otilde; 
small o, dieresis or umlaut mark     ö       &#246;  &ouml;  
division sign                        ÷       &#247;  &divide; 
small o, slash                       ø       &#248;  &oslash; 

small u, grave accent                ù       &#249;  &ugrave; 
small u, acute accent                ú       &#250;  &uacute;
small u, circumflex accent           û       &#251;  &ucirc; 
small u, dieresis or umlaut mark     ü       &#252;  &uuml; 
small y, acute accent                ý       &#253;  &yacute; 
small thorn, Icelandic               þ       &#254;  &thorn;  
small y, dieresis or umlaut mark     ÿ       &#255;  &yuml;   
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