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                                   &#131;
Low angled double quote                    &#132;
                                           &#133;
                                           &#134;
                                           &#135;
                                           &#136;
                                           &#137;
capital S, circumflex mark                 &#138;
Small less than                            &#139;
capital CE                                 &#140;
Unknown?                                    &#141;
Large Z, circumflex mark                   &#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           &#154;
Small greater than                         &#155;
Small oe                                   &#156;
Unknown?                                    &#157;
Small z, circumflex mark                   &#158;
capital y, dieresis or umlaut mark         &#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                            &#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                             &#185;  &sup1; 
superscript two                             &#178;  &sup2; 
superscript three                           &#179;  &sup3; 

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

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

capital E, grave accent                     &#200;  &Egrave;
capital E, acute accent                     &#201;  &Eacute;
capital E, circumflex accent                &#202;  &Ecirc; 
capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark          &#203;  &Euml; 
capital I, grave accent                     &#204;  &Igrave; 
capital I, acute accent                     &#205;  &Iacute; 
capital I, circumflex accent                &#206;  &Icirc; 
capital I, dieresis or umlaut mark          &#207;  &Iuml;  
capital Eth, Icelandic                      &#208;  &ETH;  
capital N, tilde                            &#209;  &Ntilde; 

capital O, grave accent                     &#210;  &Ograve; 
capital O, acute accent                     &#211;  &Oacute; 
capital O, circumflex accent                &#212;  &Ocirc; 
capital O, tilde                            &#213;  &Otilde; 
capital O, dieresis or umlaut mark          &#214;  &Ouml; 
multiply sign                               &#215;  &times; 
capital O, slash                            &#216;  &Oslash; 
capital U, grave accent                     &#217;  &Ugrave; 
capital U, acute accent                     &#218;  &Uacute; 
capital U, circumflex accent                &#219;  &Ucirc;  

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

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

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

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