Special Entities
In the table below, the characters described in the left-most column can in principle be used in a web-page by means of one of the three codes or “references” in the next three columns. In the right-most columns, you can see whether the character is displayed properly in your browser.
Glyphs of the characters are available at the Unicode Consortium; this is where I looked up some of the “references” here. I also have a page of Greek letters and mathematical symbols.
It has been the case that, except for the entity references ", & <, and > of HTML 2.0, browser support for these entities is poor. However, I have a Mozilla browser, which displays all of the symbols; therefore I feel free to use them in my web-pages.
Character | Entity | Decimal | Hex | Rendering in Your Browser | ||
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Entity | Decimal | Hex | ||||
quotation mark = APL quote | " | " | " | " | " | " |
ampersand | & | & | & | & | & | & |
less-than sign | < | < | < | < | < | < |
greater-than sign | > | > | > | > | > | > |
left guillemet | « | « | « | « | ||
right guillemet | » | » | » | » | ||
Latin small l with bar | ł | ł | ||||
Latin capital L with bar | Ł | Ł | ||||
Latin capital ligature OE | Œ | Œ | Œ | Œ | Œ | Œ |
Latin small ligature oe | œ | œ | œ | œ | œ | œ |
Latin capital letter S with caron | Š | Š | Š | Š | Š | Š |
Latin small letter s with caron | š | š | š | š | š | š |
Latin capital letter Y with diaeresis | Ÿ | Ÿ | Ÿ | Ÿ | Ÿ | Ÿ |
Latin capital letter A with circumflex | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Latin small letter a with circumflex | â | â | â | â | â | â |
Latin capital letter C with cedilla | Ç | Ç | Ç | Ç | Ç | Ç |
Latin small letter c with cedilla | ç | ç | ç | ç | ç | ç |
Latin capital letter G with breve | Ğ | Ğ | Ğ | Ğ | ||
Latin small letter g with breve | ğ | ğ | ğ | ğ | ||
Latin capital letter I | I | I | I | I | ||
Latin small letter i without dot | ı | ı | ı | ı | ||
Latin capital letter I with dot | İ | İ | İ | İ | ||
Latin small letter i with dot | i | i | i | i | ||
Latin capital letter O with umlaut | Ö | Ö | Ö | Ö | Ö | Ö |
Latin small letter o with umlaut | ö | ö | ö | ö | ö | ö |
Latin capital letter S with cedilla | Ş | Ş | Ş | Ş | ||
Latin small letter s with cedilla | ş | ş | ş | ş | ||
Latin capital letter U with circumflex | Û | Û | ||||
Latin small letter u with circumflex | û | û | ||||
Latin capital letter U with umlaut | Ü | Ü | Ü | Ü | ||
Latin small letter u with umlaut | ü | ü | ü | ü | ||
Latin small letter a with macron | ā | ā | ||||
Latin small letter e with macron | ē | ē | ||||
Latin small letter i with macron | ī | ī | ||||
Latin small letter o with macron | ō | ō | ||||
Latin small letter u with macron | ū | ū | ||||
Latin small letter y with macron | ȳ | ȳ | ||||
modifier letter circumflex accent | ˆ | ˆ | ˆ | ˆ | ˆ | ˆ |
small tilde | ˜ | ˜ | ˜ | ˜ | ˜ | ˜ |
en space |   |   |   | |||
em space |   |   |   | |||
thin space |   |   |   | |||
zero width non-joiner | ‌ | ‌ | ‌ | | | |
zero width joiner | ‍ | ‍ | ‍ | | | |
left-to-right mark | ‎ | ‎ | ‎ | | | |
right-to-left mark | ‏ | ‏ | ‏ | | | |
en dash | – | – | – | – | – | – |
em dash | — | — | — | — | — | — |
left single quotation mark | ‘ | ‘ | ‘ | ‘ | ‘ | ‘ |
right single quotation mark | ’ | ’ | ’ | ’ | ’ | ’ |
single low-9 quotation mark | ‚ | ‚ | ‚ | ‚ | ‚ | ‚ |
left double quotation mark | “ | “ | “ | “ | “ | “ |
right double quotation mark | ” | ” | ” | ” | ” | ” |
double low-9 quotation mark | „ | „ | „ | „ | „ | „ |
dagger | † | † | † | † | † | † |
double dagger | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ |
per mille sign | ‰ | ‰ | ‰ | ‰ | ‰ | ‰ |
single left-pointing angle quotation mark | ‹ | ‹ | ‹ | ‹ | ‹ | ‹ |
single right-pointing angle quotation mark | › | › | › | › | › | › |
euro sign | € | € | € | € | € | € |
section sign | § | § | ||||
pilcrow | ¶ | ¶ | ¶ | ¶ | ||
reversed pilcrow | ⁋ | ⁋ | ||||
curved-stem pilcrow | ❡ | ❡ | ||||
section sign | § | § |