The Special Character Set for HTML
Jerry Boucher
These characters should work for all browsers and operating systems.
There are many more characters like these, but they are non-standard, and might only work under
certain browser and operating system conditions.
Notice that each code begins with the ampersand
&
and ends with a semi-colon
;
| For example, the Spanish phrase |
Está en el cañon
|
| has the special characters á
and ñ which have the codes
á and
ñ
|
| The phrase would be coded as |
Está
en el ca ñon. |
The first four characters in the table --
" & < > -- must
never appear in the text of an HTML document. They must be replaced by the appropriate code.
The reason for this is that these characters are used as part of the HTML code.
One additional and very useful character is
the "unbreakable space" which can be used to force a space in the text,
and which will not break for a "wrap-around."
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