Character Entities for XHTMLtesting across platforms and browsers*
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Copyright ©2002 Murray Altheim. All Rights Reserved. |
Included are tables displaying the entire set of XHTML character entities. Character entities are short codes used to invoke the display of special characters in Web browsers, such as "ä" for an "ä" character or "€" for the Euro sign "€." Because of differences in computer platform, operating system, browser and available fonts, not all characters considered part of the HTML/XHTML character repertoire have historically been correctly displayed. This has improved somewhat, with most characters now showing up in Netscape. Included with the tables are codes indicating how each character fared on each of three platforms using a recent version of the Netscape browser.
* This document will be modified to show performance of IE sometime in the future.
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DescriptionIncluded is a table displaying the entire set of XHTML character entities. This table was derived from the set of character entities delivered with XHTML 1.0. Performance of this table varies as according to OS, browser, and fonts chosen. The description includes the glyph description, Unicode hex value, ISO or IETF source (when available), and performance codes. Some detailed notes as well as a description of the performance codes found at the end of each character entity description is located in the document Notes.
XML-compatible ISO Latin 1 Character Entity Set for XHTML
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XML-compatible ISO Special Character Entity Set for XHTML
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XML-Compatible ISO Math, Greek and Symbolic Character Entity Set for XHTML
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NotesAny measure of whether or not a specific character displays correctly is imperfect at best, and depends upon hardware platform, operating system, operating system version, choice of browser, and user font settings. The indications in this table are as described below, but should not mean to imply support for a particular character entity under other configurations. If a character has been noted to display correctly by the author, its code is noted at the end of the description area within square brackets. Characters that either do not display at all or display as '?' are missing a numeric code. Alphabetic codes are used for specific instances. The codes are below:
Index of Character Entities by NameA Aacute aacute Acirc acirc acute AElig aelig Agrave agrave alefsym Alpha alpha amp and ang apos Aring aring asymp Atilde atilde Auml auml
B: bdquo Beta beta brvbar bull
C: cap Ccedil ccedil cedil cent Chi chi circ clubs cong copy crarr cup curren
D: Dagger dagger dArr darr deg Delta delta diams divide
E: Eacute eacute Ecirc ecirc Egrave egrave empty emsp ensp Epsilon epsilon equiv Eta eta ETH eth Euml euml euro exist
F-H: fnof forall frac12 frac14 frac34 frasl Gamma gamma ge gt hArr harr hearts hellip
I: Iacute iacute Icirc icirc iexcl Igrave igrave image infin int Iota iota iquest isin Iuml iuml
K-L: Kappa kappa Lambda lambda lang laquo lArr larr lceil ldquo le lfloor lowast loz lrm lsaquo lsquo lt
M: macr mdash micro middot minus Mu mu
N: nabla nbsp ndash ne ni not notin nsub Ntilde ntilde Nu nu
O: Oacute oacute Ocirc ocirc OElig oelig Ograve ograve oline Omega omega Omicron omicron oplus or ordf ordm Oslash oslash Otilde otilde otimes Ouml ouml
P: para part permil perp Phi phi Pi pi piv plusmn pound Prime prime prod prop Psi psi
Q-R: quot radic rang raquo rArr rarr rceil rdquo real reg rfloor Rho rho rlm rsaquo rsquo
S: sbquo Scaron scaron sdot sect shy Sigma sigma sigmaf sim spades sub sube sum sup sup1 sup2 sup3 supe szlig
T: Tau tau there4 Theta theta thetasym thinsp THORN thorn tilde times trade
U: Uacute uacute uArr uarr Ucirc ucirc Ugrave ugrave uml upsih Upsilon upsilon Uuml uuml
W-Z: weierp Xi xi Yacute yacute yen Yuml yuml Zeta zeta zwj zwnj