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This <table> is a reference for the HTML Document Character Set. In addition to the standard ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) character repertoire, I have included a selection of Unicode characters. This is designed as a look-up reference for HTML authors; if you are looking for a browser check, see Ian Graham's entity test page.
(Due to the number of cells in the table, this page may take a while to render. Don't panic!)

Characters above #160 are sorted by function (alphabetic, diacritic, punctuation, and math/currency), and 63 GIFs are provided for the characters not in the {union set} of {ISO-8859-1} and {Macintosh} (U.S.) character sets.

Decimal Code	Char	Description	Entity	Notes	PostScript Name
ISO-8859-1 Characters (Supplementary Characters in bottom section)
-		Unused
		Horizontal tab
		Line feed
-		Unused
		Carriage Return
-		Unused
		Space			space
!	!	Exclamation mark			exclam
"	"	Quotation mark	"		quotedbl
#	#	Number sign			numbersign
$	$	Dollar sign			dollar
%	%	Percent sign			percent
&	&	Ampersand	&		ampersand
'	'	Apostrophe			quotesingle
(	(	Left parenthesis			parenleft
)	)	Right parenthesis			parenright
*	*	Asterisk			asterisk
+	+	Plus sign			plus
,	,	Comma			comma
-	-	Hyphen			hyphen
.	.	Period (fullstop)			period
/	/	Solidus			slash
0 - 9	0 - 9	Decimal digits
:	:	Colon			colon
;	;	Semi-colon			semicolon
<	<	Less than	<		less
=	=	Equals sign			equal
>	>	Greater than	>		greater
?	?	Question mark			question
@	@	Commercial at			at
A - Z	A - Z	Uppercase letters
[	[	Left square bracket			bracketleft
\	\	Reverse solidus			backslash
]	]	Right square bracket			bracketright
^	^	Caret			asciicircum
_	_	Horizontal bar			underscore
`	`	Grave accent			grave
a - z	a - z	Lowercase letters
{	{	Left curly brace			braceleft
\|	\|	Vertical bar			bar
}	}	Right curly brace			braceright
~	~	Tilde			asciitilde
-		Unused (truly!)
		Nonbreaking space			nbspace nobreakspace
À	?	Capital A, grave accent	À		Agrave
à	?	Small a, grave accent	à		agrave
Á	?	Capital A, acute accent	Á		Aacute
á	?	Small a, acute accent	á		aacute
Â	?	Capital A, circumflex accent	Â		Acircumflex
â	?	Small a, circumflex accent	â		acircumflex
Ã	?	Capital A, tilde	Ã		Atilde
ã	?	Small a, tilde	ã		atilde
Ä	?	Capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark	Ä		Adieresis
ä	?	Small a, dieresis or umlaut mark	ä		adieresis
Å	?	Capital A, ring	Å		Aring
å	?	Small a, ring	å		aring
Æ	?	Capital AE dipthong (ligature)	Æ		AE
æ	?	Small ae dipthong (ligature)	æ		ae
Ç	?	Capital C, cedilla	Ç		Ccedilla
ç	?	Small c, cedilla	ç		ccedilla
Ð		Capital Eth, Icelandic	Ð	c1	Eth
ð		Small eth, Icelandic	ð	c1	eth
È	?	Capital E, grave accent	È		Egrave
è	?	Small e, grave accent	è		egrave
É	?	Capital E, acute accent	É		Eacute
é	?	Small e, acute accent	é		eacute
Ê	?	Capital E, circumflex accent	Ê		Ecircumflex
ê	?	Small e, circumflex accent	ê		ecircumflex
Ë	?	Capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark	Ë		Edieresis
ë	?	Small e, dieresis or umlaut mark	ë		edieresis
Ì	?	Capital I, grave accent	Ì		Igrave
ì	?	Small i, grave accent	ì		igrave
Í	?	Capital I, acute accent	Í		Iacute
í	?	Small i, acute accent	&iacute		iacute
Î	?	Capital I, circumflex accent	Î		Icircumflex
î	?	Small i, circumflex accent	î		icircumflex
Ï	?	Capital I, dieresis or umlaut mark	Ï		Idieresis
ï	?	Small i, dieresis or umlaut mark	ï		idieresis
µ	?	Micro sign	µ		mu
Ñ	?	Capital N, tilde	Ñ		Ntilde
ñ	?	Small n, tilde	ñ		ntilde
Ò	?	Capital O, grave accent	Ò		Ograve
ò	?	Small o, grave accent	ò		ograve
Ó	?	Capital O, acute accent	Ó		Oacute
ó	?	Small o, acute accent	ó		oacute
Ô	?	Capital O, circumflex accent	Ô		Ocircumflex
ô	?	Small o, circumflex accent	ô		ocircumflex
Õ	?	Capital O, tilde	Õ		Otilde
õ	?	Small o, tilde	õ		otilde
Ö	?	Capital O, dieresis or umlaut mark	Ö		Odieresis
ö	?	Small o, dieresis or umlaut mark	ö		odieresis
Ø	?	Capital O, slash	Ø		Oslash
ø	?	Small o, slash	ø		oslash
ß	?	Small sharp s, German (sz ligature)	ß		germandbls
Þ		Capital THORN, Icelandic	Þ	c1	Thorn
þ		Small thorn, Icelandic	þ	c1	thorn
Ù	?	Capital U, grave accent	Ù		Ugrave
ù	?	Small u, grave accent	ù		ugrave
Ú	?	Capital U, acute accent	Ú		Uacute
ú	?	Small u, acute accent	ú		uacute
Û	?	Capital U, circumflex accent	Û		Ucircumflex
û	?	Small u, circumflex accent	û		ucircumflex
Ü	?	Capital U, dieresis or umlaut mark	Ü		Udieresis
ü	?	Small u, dieresis or umlaut mark	ü		udieresis
Ý		Capital Y, acute accent	Ý	c1	Yacute
ý		Small y, acute accent	ý	c1	yacute
ÿ	?	Small y, dieresis or umlaut mark	ÿ		ydieresis
¨	?	Umlaut	¨		dieresis
¯	?	Macron accent	¯		macron
´	?	Acute accent	´		acute
¸	?	Cedilla	¸		cedilla
¡	?	Inverted exclamation	¡		exclamdown
¿	?	Inverted question mark	¿		questiondown
·	?	Middle dot	·		periodcentered
¦		Broken vertical bar	¦	c1	brokenbar
«	?	Left angle quote	«		guillemotleft
»	?	Right angle quote	»		guillemotright
¶	?	Paragraph sign	¶		paragraph
§	?	Section sign	§		section
©	?	Copyright	©		copyright copyrightserif
®	?	Registered trademark	®		registered registerserif
¹		Superscript one	¹	c1	onesuperior
²		Superscript two	²	c1	twosuperior
³		Superscript three	³	c1	threesuperior
		Soft hyphen		e1	minus(?)
×		Multiply sign	×	c1	multiply
÷	?	Division sign	÷		divide
¼		Fraction one-fourth	¼	c1	onequarter
½		Fraction one-half	½	c1	onehalf
¾		Fraction three-fourths	¾	c1	threequarters
ª	?	Feminine ordinal	ª		ordfeminine
º	?	Masculine ordinal	º		ordmasculine
¬	?	Not sign	¬		logicalnot
°	?	Degree sign	°		degree
±	?	Plus or minus	±		plusminus
¤	?	General currency sign	¤		currency
¢	?	Cent sign	¢		cent
£	?	Pound sterling	£		sterling
¥	?	Yen sign	¥		yen
Supplementary Characters (Unicode UCS-2 is "charset=UNICODE-1-1")
Δ		delta	Δ	e0	Delta
ƒ		florin	ƒ	e0	florin
Ω		omega	Ω	e0	Omega
Œ		OE ligature	Œ	e0	OE
œ		oe ligature	œ	e0	oe
Š		Scaron	Š	e0	Scaron
š		scaron	š	e0	scaron
Ÿ		Ydieresis	Ÿ	e0	Ydieresis
ı		dotless i	ı	e0	dotlessi
ˆ		circumflex	ˆ	e0	circumflex
ˇ		caron	ˇ	e0	caron
˘		breve	˘	e0	breve
˙		dot accent	˙	e0	dotaccent
˚		ring	˚	e0	ring
˛		ogonek	˛	e0	ogonek
˜		tilde	˜	e0	tilde
˝		double acute accent	˝	e0	hungarumlaut
–		en dash	–	e1	endash
—		em dash	—	e1	emdash
†		dagger	†	e0	dagger
‡		double dagger	‡	e0	daggerdbl
•		bullet	•	e0	bullet
…		ellipsis	…	e0	ellipsis
‘		quote left	‘	e0	quoteleft
’		quote right	’	e0	quoteright
‚		quote single base	‚	e0	quotesinglbase
“		quote double left	“	e0	quotedblleft
”		quote double right	”	e0	quotedblright
„		quote double base	„	e0	quotedblbase
‹		guille single left	‹	e?	guilsinglleft
›		guille single right	›	e?	guilsinglright
™		trademark, TM	™	e1	trademark trademarkserif
℠		service mark, SM
℗		sound recording copyright, (P)
√		radical	√	e0	radical
∞		infinity	∞	e0	infinity
∫		integral	∫	e0	integral
∂		partial differential	∂	e0	partialdiff
≅		approximately equal	≈	e0	approxequal
≠		not equal	≠	e0	notequal
≤		less than or equal	≤	e0	lessequal
≥		greater than or equal	≥	e0	greaterequal
Σ		summation	∑	e0	summation
‰		per thousand (mille)	‰	e0	perthousand
⁄		fraction separator			fraction
∏		product	∏	e0	product
π		pi	π	e0	pi
◊		lozenge (diamond)	◊	e0	lozenge
₣		franc			franc
		Apple logo			apple
⌘		command key
⌥		option key
☮		peace symbol
☯		yin yang

Notes
`c1` Character not in charset="macintosh" (x-mac-roman, code page 10000) `c2` Character not in charset="window-1252" (code page 1252) `c3` Character not in charset="yyyyyy" (What is Unix's charset name?)
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`e?` Entity proposed for ISO-8879 but not yet approved `e0` Entity from ISO-8879 (not yet recognized by HTML agents) `e1` Entity not recognized by Netscape 1.1 `e2` Entity not recognized by NCSA Mosaic 2.0 (I need info...) `e3` Entity not recognized by Lynx 2.4 (I need info...)
`h2` Introduced in HTML 2.0 (RFC 1866) `h3` Proposed for HTML 3.0 `hW` Introduced in HTML 3.2 `h4` Introduced in HTML 4.0/4.01
The supplementary characters use Unicode decimal values. Although most current browsers do not yet support Unicode, this is the direction in which HTML is heading. Since Unicode is designed for information exchange rather than typography, there is only one glyph per character (although the same character may appear in more than one code page). Unicode is not a font technology. Adobe has developed CID fonts (see the tech notes) to handle large character sets, Bitstream has developed the Cyberbit font (8,500 Unicode characters), and Apple's QuickDraw GX font technology supports multiple glyphs per character (such as swash capitals, superscripts and subscripts, true small caps, true ligatures, etc.) under MacOS. In Mac OS 8.5, Apple introduced a new API to support layout and drawing of Unicode text called ATSUI (Apple Text Services for Unicode Imaging). Since many Windows TrueType fonts, and all OpenType fonts, are set up to be used for Unicode exclusively, they're a good fit for use by ATSUI. Apple includes this API in the core of Mac OS X, which supports multiple encodings. For more information about fonts on the Web, see the W3C page Fonts and the Web.

Since Unicode is designed for information exchange rather than typography, there is only one glyph per character (although the same character may appear in more than one code page).
Unicode is not a font technology. Adobe has developed CID fonts (see the tech notes) to handle large character sets, Bitstream has developed the Cyberbit font (8,500 Unicode characters), and Apple's QuickDraw GX font technology supports multiple glyphs per character (such as swash capitals, superscripts and subscripts, true small caps, true ligatures, etc.) under MacOS. In Mac OS 8.5, Apple introduced a new API to support layout and drawing of Unicode text called ATSUI (Apple Text Services for Unicode Imaging). Since many Windows TrueType fonts, and all OpenType fonts, are set up to be used for Unicode exclusively, they're a good fit for use by ATSUI. Apple includes this API in the core of Mac OS X, which supports multiple encodings. For more information about fonts on the Web, see the W3C page Fonts and the Web.

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