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Numeric character references for HTML

The following table lists the special characters that are part of ISO Latin 1 but which do not have named equivalents in HTML.(see Character entity references for HTML. In order to use the characters in the leftmost column of this table, use the numeric character reference shown in the rightmost column, e.g, to get a pound sign £, use the numeric character reference £

Note that names have been assigned to all these characters (see Martin Ramsch's complete iso8859-1 (Latin-1) table), they are not recognized by the HTML standard because current browsers do not recognize them (the ones that your browser recognizes appear as characters in Ramsch's table; the rest appear as entities [i.e. names]). This situation will probably change in future version of HTML and it will be possible to use the more mnemonic named character entity references, such as £.

For this character                 Use this entity
                                   reference
__________________                 _________


¡ inverted exclamation mark        ¡
¢ cent sign                        ¢
£ pound sign                       £
¤ currency sign                    ¤
¥ yen sign                         ¥
¦ broken vertical bar              ¦
§ section sign                     §
¨ spacing diaresis                 ¨
© copyright sign                   ©
ª feminine ordinal indicator       ª
« angle quotation mark, left       «
¬ negation sign                    ¬
­ soft hyphen                      ­
® circled R registered sign        ®
¯ spacing macron                   ¯
° degree sign                      °
± plus-or-minus sign               ±
² superscript 2                    ²
³ superscript 3                    ³
´ spacing acute                    ´
µ micro sign                       µ
¶ paragraph sign                   ¶
· middle dot                       ·
¸ spacing cedilla                  ¸
¹ superscript 1                    ¹
º masculine ordinal indicator      º
» angle quotation mark, right      »
¼ fraction 1/4                     ¼
½ fraction 1/2                     ½
¾ fraction 3/4                     ¾
¿ inverted question mark           ¿
÷ division sign                    ÷
× multiplication sign              ×