HTML character entities

When you publish web pages, not all characters may translate from your word-processor to HTML. Caliban intelligently replaces the most common of these, but sometimes you will have manually change an unusual character for an HTML Character Entity. A list of these appears below.

Result Description Name Number
" quotation mark " "
' apostrophe  ' '
& ampersand & &
< less-than &lt; &#60;
> greater-than &gt; &#62;
  non-breaking space &nbsp; &#160;
¡ inverted exclamation mark &iexcl; &#161;
Û currency &curren; &#164;
¢ cent &cent; &#162;
£ pound &pound; &#163;
´ yen &yen; &#165;
¦ broken vertical bar &brvbar; &#166;
¤ section &sect; &#167;
¬ spacing diaeresis &uml; &#168;
© copyright &copy; &#169;
» feminine ordinal indicator &ordf; &#170;
« angle quotation mark (left) &laquo; &#171;
 negation &not; &#172;
* soft hyphen &shy; &#173;
® registered trademark &reg; &#174;
™ trademark &trade; &#8482;
ø spacing macron &macr; &#175;
¡ degree &deg; &#176;
± plus-or-minus  &plusmn; &#177;
* superscript 2 &sup2; &#178;
* superscript 3 &sup3; &#179;
« spacing acute &acute; &#180;
µ micro &micro; &#181;
œ paragraph &para; &#182;
á middle dot &middot; &#183;
ü spacing cedilla &cedil; &#184;
* superscript 1 &sup1; &#185;
* masculine ordinal indicator &ordm; &#186;
» angle quotation mark (right) &raquo; &#187;
* fraction 1/4 &frac14; &#188;
* fraction 1/2 &frac12; &#189;
* fraction 3/4 &frac34; &#190;
À inverted question mark &iquest; &#191;
* multiplication &times; &#215;
Ö division &divide; &#247;
À capital a, grave accent &Agrave; &#192;
Á capital a, acute accent &Aacute; &#193;
 capital a, circumflex accent &Acirc; &#194;
à capital a, tilde &Atilde; &#195;
Ä capital a, umlaut mark &Auml; &#196;
Å capital a, ring &Aring; &#197;
Æ capital ae &AElig; &#198;
Ç capital c, cedilla &Ccedil; &#199;
È capital e, grave accent &Egrave; &#200;
É capital e, acute accent &Eacute; &#201;
Ê capital e, circumflex accent &Ecirc; &#202;
Ë capital e, umlaut mark &Euml; &#203;
Ì capital i, grave accent &Igrave; &#204;
Í capital i, acute accent &Iacute; &#205;
Î capital i, circumflex accent &Icirc; &#206;
Ï capital i, umlaut mark &Iuml; &#207;
Ð capital eth, Icelandic &ETH; &#208;
Ñ capital n, tilde &Ntilde; &#209;
Ò capital o, grave accent &Ograve; &#210;
Ó capital o, acute accent &Oacute; &#211;
Ô capital o, circumflex accent &Ocirc; &#212;
Õ capital o, tilde &Otilde; &#213;
Ö capital o, umlaut mark &Ouml; &#214;
Ø capital o, slash &Oslash; &#216;
ô capital u, grave accent &Ugrave; &#217;
ò capital u, acute accent &Uacute; &#218;
ó capital u, circumflex accent &Ucirc; &#219;
† capital u, umlaut mark &Uuml; &#220;
* capital y, acute accent &Yacute; &#221;
Þ capital THORN, Icelandic &THORN; &#222;
§ small sharp s, German &szlig; &#223;
ˆ small a, grave accent &agrave; &#224;
‡ small a, acute accent &aacute; &#225;
‰ small a, circumflex accent &acirc; &#226;
‹ small a, tilde &atilde; &#227;
* small a, umlaut mark &auml; &#228;
Πsmall a, ring &aring; &#229;
* small ae &aelig; &#230;
* small c, cedilla &ccedil; &#231;
* small e, grave accent &egrave; &#232;
* small e, acute accent &eacute; &#233;
* small e, circumflex accent &ecirc; &#234;
‘ small e, umlaut mark &euml; &#235;
“ small i, grave accent &igrave; &#236;
’ small i, acute accent &iacute; &#237;
” small i, circumflex accent &icirc; &#238;
• small i, umlaut mark &iuml; &#239;
* small eth, Icelandic &eth; &#240;
– small n, tilde &ntilde; &#241;
˜ small o, grave accent &ograve; &#242;
— small o, acute accent &oacute; &#243;
™ small o, circumflex accent &ocirc; &#244;
› small o, tilde &otilde; &#245;
* small o, umlaut mark &ouml; &#246;
¿ small o, slash &oslash; &#248;
* small u, grave accent &ugrave; &#249;
œ small u, acute accent &uacute; &#250;
* small u, circumflex accent &ucirc; &#251;
Ÿ small u, umlaut mark &uuml; &#252;
* small y, acute accent &yacute; &#253;
ß small thorn, Icelandic &thorn; &#254;
Ø small y, umlaut mark &yuml; &#255;
Πcapital ligature OE &OElig; &#338;
œ small ligature oe &oelig; &#339;
Š capital S with caron &Scaron; &#352;
š small S with caron &scaron; &#353;
Ÿ capital Y with diaeres &Yuml; &#376;
ˆ modifier letter circumflex accent &circ; &#710;
˜ small tilde &tilde; &#732;
  en space &ensp; &#8194;
  em space &emsp; &#8195;
  thin space &thinsp; &#8201;
‌ zero width non-joiner &zwnj; &#8204;
‍ zero width joiner &zwj; &#8205;
‎ left-to-right mark &lrm; &#8206;
‏ right-to-left mark &rlm; &#8207;
– en dash &ndash; &#8211;
— em dash &mdash; &#8212;
‘ left single quotation mark &lsquo; &#8216;
’ right single quotation mark &rsquo; &#8217;
‚ single low-9 quotation mark &sbquo; &#8218;
“ left double quotation mark &ldquo; &#8220;
” right double quotation mark &rdquo; &#8221;
„ double low-9 quotation mark &bdquo; &#8222;
† dagger &dagger; &#8224;
‡ double dagger &Dagger; &#8225;
… horizontal ellipsis &hellip; &#8230;
‰ per mille  &permil; &#8240;
‹ single left-pointing angle quotation &lsaquo; &#8249;
› single right-pointing angle quotation &rsaquo; &#8250;
€ euro &euro; &#8364;