Miscellaneous characters for HTML: HTMLmisc

The following table lists special characters defined as part of HTML 4. This mostly consists of punctuation characters, plus a few special characters. The entity names are not supported by Netscape Communicator 4, but are supported by Internet Explorer 4.

NOTE -- There is a useful Table Key at the bottom of this document.

Table Key/Description

• Column 1 defines the decimal position of the character in the Unicode character set.
• Column 2 defines the position of the character in the Unicode character set, but in hexadecimal notation.
• Column 3 contains an SGML decimal character reference for the character (i.e., &#xxx;, where xxx is the decimal character code). If the character is rendered correctly, then your browser supports this character reference and has a font that can generate the required symbol. If you see a "box" or question mark, then your browser probably understands the character reference, but does not have an appropriate font for displaying it.
• Column 4 gives the entity name by which the character can be identified.
• Column 5 contains an actual entity reference, of the form &name;, where name is the name of the entity -- for example, ¢. If the character is rendered correctly, then your browser supports this entity reference and has a font that can generate the required symbol. If you see a "box" or question mark, then your browser probably understands the character reference, but does not have an appropriate font for displaying it. If you simply see the literal entity string (e.g., Ε), then your browser does not understand the entity name.
• Column 6 contains a short, simple description of the character.
• Column 7 lists the ISO standard (if any) that originally defined this entity name.