These days, as long as you use the appropriate input method,
and the page is correctly encoded, you may not need to use these entities. They are still
listed here, though, for times when you just want to be on the safe side.
Take care when adding these, because case is important. In most cases, capitalizing the
first letter of the entity name results in an uppercase character, but this isn??™t always so
(notably the Icelandic characters ???eth??? and ???thorn,??? the uppercase versions of which
require the entire entity name to be in uppercase).
Character Description Entity name Entity number
?? Acute accent (no letter) ´ ´
?? Cedilla (no letter) ¸ ¸
?† ˆ ˆ
_
Macron accent ¯ ¯
continues
Circumflex spacing
modifier
Script capital P,
power set
Registered trademark
symbol
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Character Description Entity name Entity number
?· Middle dot · ·
?? Tilde ˜ ˜
?? Umlaut ¨ ¨
?? Á Á
?? á á
?‚ Â Â
?? â â
?? À À
? à à
?… Uppercase A, ring Å Å
?? Lowercase a, ring å å
?? Uppercase A, tilde à Ã
?? Lowercase a, tilde ã ã
?„ Uppercase A, umlaut Ä Ä
?¤ Lowercase a, umlaut ä ä
?† Uppercase AE ligature Æ Æ
?¦ Lowercase ae ligature æ æ
?‡ Uppercase C, cedilla Ç Ç
?§ Lowercase c, cedilla ç ç
?‰ É É Uppercase E, acute
accent
Lowercase a, grave
accent
Uppercase A, grave
accent
Lowercase a, circumflex
accent
Uppercase a, circumflex
accent
Lowercase a, acute
accent
Uppercase A, acute
accent
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Character Description Entity name Entity number
?© é é
?? Ê Ê
?? ê ê
?? È È
?? è è
?‹ Uppercase E, umlaut Ë Ë
?« Lowercase e, umlaut ë ë
Uppercase eth Ð Ð
Lowercase eth ð ð
?? Í Í
? í í
?? Î Î
?® î î
?? Ì Ì
?¬ ì ì
?? Uppercase I, umlaut Ï Ï
?? Lowercase i, umlaut ï ï
continues
Lowercase i, grave
accent
Uppercase I, grave
accent
Lowercase i, circumflex
accent
Uppercase I, circumflex
accent
Lowercase i, acute
accent
Uppercase I, acute
accent
Lowercase e, grave
accent
Uppercase E, grave
accent
Lowercase e, circumflex
accent
Uppercase E, circumflex
accent
Lowercase e, acute
accent
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Character Description Entity name Entity number
?‘ Uppercase N, tilde Ñ Ñ
?± Lowercase n, tilde ñ ñ
?“ Ó Ó
?? ó ó
?” Ô Ô
?? ô ô
?’ Ò Ò
?? ò ò
?? Uppercase O, slash Ø Ø
?? Lowercase o, slash ø ø
?• Uppercase O, tilde Õ Õ
?µ Lowercase o, tilde õ õ
?– Uppercase O, umlaut Ö Ö
?¶ Lowercase o, umlaut ö ö
?’ Uppercase OE ligature Œ Œ
?“ Lowercase oe ligature œ œ
Uppercase S, caron Š Š
Lowercase s, caron š š
?? Lowercase sz ligature ß ß
Lowercase o, grave
accent
Uppercase O, grave
accent
Lowercase o, circumflex
accent
Uppercase O, circumflex
accent
Lowercase o, acute
accent
Uppercase O, acute
accent
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Character Description Entity name Entity number
Uppercase thorn Þ Þ
Lowercase thorn þ þ
?? Ú Ú
?? ú ú
?› Û Û
?» û û
?™ Ù Ù
?? ù ù
?? Uppercase U, umlaut Ü Ü
?? Lowercase u, umlaut ü ü
Ý Ý
ý ý
?? Uppercase Y, umlaut Ÿ Ÿ
?? Lowercase y, umlaut ÿ ÿ
Lowercase y, acute
accent
Uppercase Y, acute
accent
Lowercase u, grave
accent
Uppercase U, grave
accent
Lowercase u, circumflex
accent
Uppercase U, circumflex
accent
Lowercase u, acute
accent
Uppercase U, acute
accent
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Currency signs
Although the dollar sign is supported in XHTML, other common currency symbols are not.
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