presents
HTML SPECIAL CHARACTER ENTITIES
based on
The ISO 8859-1 Coded Character Set
and
HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE SPECIFICATION 2.0
As far as I have been able to tell, this is the only complete listing of the first 255 character entities listed at Google. More information can be found at the listing of Character Entity Sets at The Worldwide Web Consortium, and the ASCII - ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) Table with HTML 3.0 Entity Names. Information on rendering complex mathematical equations using HTML can be found by searching at the Worldwide Web Consortium for Mathematical Equations. Further information about character sets which are supported by HTML but not necessarily by all computer systems can be found at ISO8859-5 and Unicode characters in HTML, which covers ISO 8859 Latin-A, the Minimum European Subset and touches on the UTF-8 character set. ISO8859 Alphabet Soup is part of a dissertation about Unicode by Roman Czyborra which covers ISO8859 Latin (including the Eastern European languages which use a modified Latin character set), Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew, however because of the fact that it is part of the Web Archive, not all of the links may work the way they are supposed to. Other essential information can be found at Unicode. If you're interested, check out my UTF-8 Charts which are set to display the UTF-8 character set. If you're running a system greater than WindowsNT or Mac OS 8.5 (but not all of them, your mileage may vary) you should be able to see a large number of Latin, Greek and special characters. If you're not running one of those systems, or if your system doesn't understand Unicode characters (like Windows95 and Windows98), you'll probably see a bunch of question marks or little squares. Rendering NoteIf either the ISO Latin-1 numeric entity name or the HTML escape sequence appears in the row, or if the character appears to be different than the common name, then your browser or operating system may not recognize the entity and cannot render it as designed. Also, many of the "unused" characters may show up as characters on your browser, depending on what operating system you're using. These should not be taken as a guarantee that the character will work on every browser and every operating system. If the character is an "unused" character in the list, then it means that, according to the HTML standard, it's not used for anything. Whether it shows up or not in a particular browser or a particular operating system is not an indication of a defect in other browsers or operating systems. The keyboard used was a standard US English QWERTY keyboard with no additions for characters with diacritical marks. After you're done encoding your web pages, why not relax and burn some incense? |
| CONTROL CHARACTERS | |||||
| ISO Latin-1 Numeric Entity | Decimal Value | Escape Sequence Rendered | HTML Escape Sequence | Common Name | Keyboard Character |
| 000 | none | none | null | none | |
| 001 | none | none | start of heading | none | |
| 002 | none | none | start of text | none | |
| 003 | none | none | end of text | none | |
| 004 | none | none | end of transmission | none | |
| 005 | none | none | enquiry | none | |
| 006 | none | none | acknowledge | none | |
| 007 | none | none | bell | none | |
| 008 | none | none | backspace | no visible keyboard character | |
| 009 | none | none | horizontal tab | no visible keyboard character | |
| 010 | none | none | line feed | no visible keyboard character | |
| 011 | none | none | vertical tab | none | |
| 012 | none | none | form feed | none | |
| 013 | none | none | carriage return | no visible keyboard character | |
| 014 | none | none | shift out | none | |
| 015 | none | none | shift in | none | |
| 016 | none | none | data link escape | none | |
| 017 | none | none | device control 1 | none | |
| 018 | none | none | device control 2 | none | |
| 019 | none | none | device control 3 | none | |
| 020 | none | none | device control 4 | none | |
| 021 | none | none | negative acknowledge | none | |
| 022 | none | none | synchronous idle | none | |
| 023 | none | none | end of transmission block | none | |
| 024 | none | none | cancel | none | |
| 025 | none | none | end of medium | none | |
| 026 | none | none | substitute | none | |
| 027 | none | none | escape | no visible keyboard character | |
| 028 | none | none | file separator | none | |
| 029 | none | none | group separator | none | |
| 030 | none | none | record separator | none | |
| 031 | none | none | unit separator | none | |
| PUNCTUATION, DIGITS & ALPHABETIC CHARACTERS | |||||
| ISO Latin-1 Numeric Entity | Decimal Value | Escape Sequence Rendered | HTML Escape Sequence | Common Name | Keyboard Character |
| 032 | &sp; or ␣ | &sp; or ␣ | space | no visible keyboard character | |
| ! | 033 | ! | ! | exclamation point | ! |
| " | 034 | " | " | quotation mark | " |
| # | 035 | # | # | octothorpe | # |
| $ | 036 | $ | $ | dollar sign | $ |
| % | 037 | % | % | percent sign | % |
| & | 038 | & | & | ampersand | & |
| ' | 039 | ' | ' | apostrophe | ' |
| ( | 040 | ( | ( | left paren | ( |
| ) | 041 | ) | ) | right paren | ) |
| * | 042 | * | * | asterisk | * |
| + | 043 | + | + | plus sign | + |
| , | 044 | , | , | comma | , |
| - | 045 | ‐ or − or ‐ | ‐ or − or ‐ | hyphen | - |
| . | 046 | . | . | period | . |
| / | 047 | / | / | solidus | / |
| DIGITS 0 - 9 | |||||
| ISO Latin-1 Numeric Entity | Decimal Value | (HTML escape sequences do not exist for digits) | (HTML escape sequences do not exist for digits) | Common Name | Keyboard Character |
| 0 | 048 | - | - | digit zero | 0 |
| 1 | 049 | - | - | digit one | 1 |
| 2 | 050 | - | - | digit two | 2 |
| 3 | 051 | - | - | digit three | 3 |
| 4 | 052 | - | - | digit four | 4 |
| 5 | 053 | - | - | digit five | 5 |
| 6 | 054 | - | - | digit six | 6 |
| 7 | 055 | - | - | digit seven | 7 |
| 8 | 056 | - | - | digit eight | 8 |
| 9 | 057 | - | - | digit nine | 9 |
| ISO Latin-1 Numeric Entity | Decimal Value | Escape Sequence Rendered | HTML Escape Sequence | Common Name | Keyboard Character |
| : | 058 | : | : | colon | : |
| ; | 059 | ; | ; | semi-colon | ; |
| < | 060 | < | < | less than | < |
| = | 061 | = | = | equals | = |
| > | 062 | > | > | greater than | > |
| ? | 063 | ? | ? | question mark | ? |
| @ | 064 | @ | @ | commercial at | @ |
| CAPITAL (UPPER CASE) CHARACTERS | |||||
| ISO Latin-1 Numeric Entity | Decimal Value | (HTML escape sequences do not exist for alphabetic characters) | (HTML escape sequences do not exist for alphabetic characters) | Common Name | Keyboard Character |
| A | 065 | - | - | Latin capital letter A | A |
| B | 066 | - | - | Latin capital letter B | B |
| C | 067 | - | - | Latin capital letter C | C |
| D | 068 | - | - | Latin capital letter D | D |
| E | 069 | - | - | Latin capital letter E | E |
| F | 070 | - | - | Latin capital letter F | F |
| G | 071 | - | - | Latin capital letter G | G |
| H | 072 | - | - | Latin capital letter H | H |
| I | 073 | - | - | Latin capital letter I | I |
| J | 074 | - | - | Latin capital letter J | J |
| K | 075 | - | - | Latin capital letter K | K |
| L | 076 | - | - | Latin capital letter L | L |
| M | 077 | - | - | Latin capital letter M | M |
| N | 078 | - | - | Latin capital letter N | N |
| O | 079 | - | - | Latin capital letter O | O |
| P | 080 | - | - | Latin capital letter P | P |
| Q | 081 | - | - | Latin capital letter Q | Q |
| R | 082 | - | - | Latin capital letter R | R |
| S | 083 | - | - | Latin capital letter S | S |
| T | 084 | - | - | Latin capital letter T | T |
| U | 085 | - | - | Latin capital letter U | U |
| V | 086 | - | - | Latin capital letter V | V |
| W | 087 | - | - | Latin capital letter W | W |
| X | 088 | - | - | Latin capital letter X | X |
| Y | 089 | - | - | Latin capital letter Y | Y |
| Z | 090 | - | - | Latin capital letter Z | Z |
| ISO Latin-1 Numeric Entity | Decimal Value | Escape Sequence Rendered | HTML Escape Sequence | Common Name | Keyboard Character |
| [ | 091 | [ | [ | left square bracket | [ |
| \ | 092 | \ | \ | reverse solidus | \ |
| ] | 093 | ] | ] | right square bracket | ] |
| ^ | 094 | ˆ or ⁁ | ˆ or ⁁ | caret | ^ |
| _ | 095 | _ | _ | underscore | _ |
| ` | 096 | none | none | grave accent/back apostrophe | ` |
| SMALL (LOWER CASE CASE) CHARACTERS | |||||
| ISO Latin-1 Numeric Entity | Decimal Value | (HTML escape sequences do not exist for alphabetic characters) | (HTML escape sequences do not exist for alphabetic characters) | Common Name | Keyboard Character |
| a | 097 | - | - | Latin small letter a | a |
| b | 098 | - | - | Latin small letter b | b |
| c | 099 | - | - | Latin small letter c | c |
| d | 100 | - | - | Latin small letter d | d |
| e | 101 | - | - | Latin small letter e | e |
| f | 102 | - | - | Latin small letter f | f |
| g | 103 | - | - | Latin small letter g | g |
| h | 104 | - | - | Latin small letter h | h |
| i | 105 | - | - | Latin small letter i | i |
| j | 106 | - | - | Latin small letter j | j |
| k | 107 | - | - | Latin small letter k | k |
| l | 108 | - | - | Latin small letter l | l |
| m | 109 | - | - | Latin small letter m | m |
| n | 110 | - | - | Latin small letter n | n |
| o | 111 | - | - | Latin small letter o | o |
| p | 112 | - | - | Latin small letter p | p |
| q | 113 | - | - | Latin small letter q | q |
| r | 114 | - | - | Latin small letter r | r |
| s | 115 | - | - | Latin small letter s | s |
| t | 116 | - | - | Latin small letter t | t |
| u | 117 | - | - | Latin small letter u | u |
| v | 118 | - | - | Latin small letter v | v |
| w | 119 | - | - | Latin small letter w | w |
| x | 120 | - | - | Latin small letter x | x |
| y | 121 | - | - | Latin small letter y | y |
| z | 122 | - | - | Latin small letter z | z |
| ISO Latin-1 Numeric Entity | Decimal Value | Escape Sequence Rendered | HTML Escape Sequence | Common Name | Keyboard Character |
| { | 123 | { | { | left curly brace | { |
| | | 124 | | | | | vertical bar | | |
| } | 125 | } | } | right curly brace | } |
| ~ | 126 | ˜ or ∼ | ˜ or ∼ | tilde | ~ |
| EXTENDED CONTROL CHARACTERS | |||||
| ISO Latin-1 Numeric Entity | Decimal Value | Escape Sequence Rendered | HTML Escape Sequence | Common Name | Keyboard Character |
| | 127 | none | none | delete | no visible keyboard character |
| UNUSED CHARACTERS | |||||
| ISO Latin-1 Numeric Entity | Decimal Value | Escape Sequence Rendered | HTML Escape Sequence | Common Name | Keyboard Character |
| | 128 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 129 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 130 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 131 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 132 | none | none | none | unused |
| 133 | none | none | none | unused | |
| | 134 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 135 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 136 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 137 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 138 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 139 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 140 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 141 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 142 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 143 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 144 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 145 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 146 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 147 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 148 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 149 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 150 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 151 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 152 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 153 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 154 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 155 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 156 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 157 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 158 | none | none | none | unused |
| | 159 | none | none | none | unused |
| SPECIAL CHARACTERS | |||||
| ISO Latin-1 Numeric Entity | Decimal Value | Escape Sequence Rendered | HTML Escape Sequence | Common Name | Keyboard Character |
| 160 | | non-breaking space | no keyboard character | ||
| ¡ | 161 | ¡ | ¡ | inverted exclamation point | no keyboard character |
| ¢ | 162 | ¢ | ¢ | cent sign | no keyboard character |
| £ | 163 | £ | £ | pound sterling | no keyboard character |
| ¤ | 164 | ¤ | ¤ | general currency | no keyboard character |
| ¥ | 165 | ¥ | ¥ | yen sign | no keyboard character |
| ¦ | 166 | ¦ or &brkbar; | ¦ or &brkbar; | broken vertical bar | | |
| § | 167 | § | § | section sign | no keyboard character |
| ¨ | 168 | ¨ or ¨ | ¨ or ¨ | dieresis | no keyboard character |
| © | 169 | © | © | copyright | no keyboard character |
| ª | 170 | ª | ª | feminine ordinal | no keyboard character |
| « | 171 | « | « | left guillemot | no keyboard character |
| ¬ | 172 | ¬ | ¬ | not sign | no keyboard character |
| | 173 | | ­ | soft hyphen | no keyboard character |
| ® | 174 | ® | ® | registered trademark | no keyboard character |
| ¯ | 175 | ¯ or &hibar; | ¯ or &hibar; | macron | no keyboard character |
| ° | 176 | ° | ° | degree sign | no keyboard character |
| ± | 177 | ± | ± | plus or minus | no keyboard character |
| ² | 178 | ² | ² | superscript 2 | no keyboard character |
| ³ | 179 | ³ | ³ | superscript 3 | no keyboard character |
| ´ | 180 | ´ | ´ | acute accent | no keyboard character |
| µ | 181 | µ | µ | mu | no keyboard character |
| ¶ | 182 | ¶ | ¶ | pilcrow | no keyboard character |
| · | 183 | · | · | middle dot | no keyboard character |
| ¸ | 184 | ¸ | ¸ | cedilla | no keyboard character |
| ¹ | 185 | ¹ | ¹ | superscript 1 | no keyboard character |
| º | 186 | º | º | masculine ordinal | no keyboard character |
| » | 187 | » | » | right guillemot | no keyboard character |
| ¼ | 188 | ¼ | ¼ | fraction one-fourth | no keyboard character |
| ½ | 189 | ½ or ½ | ½ or ½ | fraction one-half | no keyboard character |
| ¾ | 190 | ¾ | ¾ | fraction three-fourths | no keyboard character |
| ¿ | 191 | ¿ | ¿ | inverted question mark | no keyboard character |
| UPPERCASE LATIN-1 CHARACTERS | |||||
| ISO Latin-1 Numeric Entity | Decimal Value | Escape Sequence Rendered | HTML Escape Sequence | Common Name | Keyboard Character |
| À | 192 | À | À | capital A, grave accent | no keyboard character |
| Á | 193 | Á | Á | capital A, acute accent | no keyboard character |
| Â | 194 | Â | Â | capital A, circumflex accent | no keyboard character |
| Ã | 195 | Ã | Ã | capital A, tilde | no keyboard character |
| Ä | 196 | Ä | Ä | capital A, dieresis | no keyboard character |
| Å | 197 | Å or Å | Å or Å | capital A, ring | no keyboard character |
| Æ | 198 | Æ | Æ | capital AE diphthong | no keyboard character |
| Ç | 199 | Ç | Ç | capital C, cedilla | no keyboard character |
| È | 200 | È | È | capital E, grave accent | no keyboard character |
| É | 201 | É | É | capital E, acute accent | no keyboard character |
| Ê | 202 | Ê | Ê | capital E, circumflex accent | no keyboard character |
| Ë | 203 | Ë | Ë | capital E, dieresis | no keyboard character |
| Ì | 204 | Ì | Ì | capital I, grave accent | no keyboard character |
| Í | 205 | Í | Í | capital I, acute accent | no keyboard character |
| Î | 206 | Î | Î | capital I, circumflex accent | no keyboard character |
| Ï | 207 | Ï | Ï | capital I, dieresis | no keyboard character |
| Ð | 208 | Ð or Đ | Ð or Đ | capital Eth | no keyboard character |
| Ñ | 209 | Ñ | Ñ | capital N, tilde | no keyboard character |
| Ò | 210 | Ò | Ò | capital O, grave accent | no keyboard character |
| Ó | 211 | Ó | Ó | capital O, acute accent | no keyboard character |
| Ô | 212 | Ô | Ô | capital O, circumflex accent | no keyboard character |
| Õ | 213 | Õ | Õ | capital O, tilde | no keyboard character |
| Ö | 214 | Ö | Ö | capital O, dieresis | no keyboard character |
| × | 215 | × | × | multiply sign | no keyboard character |
| Ø | 216 | Ø | Ø | capital O, slash | no keyboard character |
| Ù | 217 | Ù | Ù | capital U, grave accent | no keyboard character |
| Ú | 218 | Ú | Ú | capital U, acute accent | no keyboard character |
| Û | 219 | Û | Û | capital U, circumflex accent | no keyboard character |
| Ü | 220 | Ü | Ü | capital U, dieresis | no keyboard character |
| Ý | 221 | Ý | Ý | capital Y, acute accent | no keyboard character |
| Þ | 222 | Þ | Þ | capital Thorn | no keyboard character |
| ß | 223 | ß | ß | German sz ligature | no keyboard character |
| LOWERCASE LATIN-1 CHARACTERS | |||||
| ISO Latin-1 Numeric Entity | Decimal Value | Escape Sequence Rendered | HTML Escape Sequence | Common Name | Keyboard Character |
| à | 224 | à | à | lowercase a, grave accent | no keyboard character |
| á | 225 | á | á | lowercase a, acute accent | no keyboard character |
| â | 226 | â | â | lowercase a, circumflex accent | no keyboard character |
| ã | 227 | ã | ã | lowercase a, tilde | no keyboard character |
| ä | 228 | ä | ä | lowercase a, dieresis | no keyboard character |
| å | 229 | å | å | lowercase a, ring | no keyboard character |
| æ | 230 | æ | æ | lowercase ae ligature | no keyboard character |
| ç | 231 | ç | ç | lowercase c, cedilla | no keyboard character |
| è | 232 | è | è | lowercase e, grave accent | no keyboard character |
| é | 233 | é | é | lowercase e, acute accent | no keyboard character |
| ê | 234 | ê | ê | lowercase e, circumflex accent | no keyboard character |
| ë | 235 | ë | ë | lowercase e, dieresis | no keyboard character |
| ì | 236 | ì | ì | lowercase i, grave accent | no keyboard character |
| í | 237 | í | í | lowercase i, acute accent | no keyboard character |
| î | 238 | î | î | lowercase i, circumflex accent | no keyboard character |
| ï | 239 | ï | ï | lowercase i, dieresis | no keyboard character |
| ð | 240 | ð | ð | lowercase eth | no keyboard character |
| ñ | 241 | ñ | ñ | lowercase n, tilde | no keyboard character |
| ò | 242 | ò | ò | lowercase o, grave accent | no keyboard character |
| ó | 243 | ó | ó | lowercase o, acute accent | no keyboard character |
| ô | 244 | ô | ô | lowercase o, circumflex accent | no keyboard character |
| õ | 245 | õ | õ | lowercase o, tilde | no keyboard character |
| ö | 246 | ö | ö | lowercase o, dieresis | no keyboard character |
| ÷ | 247 | ÷ | ÷ | division sign | no keyboard character |
| ø | 248 | ø | ø | lowercase o, slash | no keyboard character |
| ù | 249 | ù | ù | lowercase u, grave accent | no keyboard character |
| ú | 250 | ú | ú | lowercase u, acute accent | no keyboard character |
| û | 251 | û | û | lowercase u, circumflex accent | no keyboard character |
| ü | 252 | ü | ü | lowercase u, dieresis | no keyboard character |
| ý | 253 | ý | ý | lowercase y, acute accent | no keyboard character |
| þ | 254 | þ | þ | lowercase thorn | no keyboard character |
| ÿ | 255 | ÿ | ÿ | lowercase y, dieresis | no keyboard character |
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