| HTML character references |
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When you are not able to enter some character directly,
or when you want to make sure that a character appears
exactly as you meant in spite of differencies in
hardware or software components,
you may use character references. Character references are a character encoding-independent mechanism for entering any character. Character references in HTML may appear in two forms:
In the following table, some of the most commonly used character respresentations. |
| character description | representation |
decimal character reference |
character entity reference |
| non-breaking space |   | | |
| quotation mark = APL quote | " | " | " |
| ampersand | & | & | & |
| less-than sign | < | < | < |
| greater-than sign | > | > | > |
| cent sign | ¢ | ¢ | ¢ |
| pound | £ | £ | £ |
| currency sign | ¤ | ¤ | ¤ |
| yen sign | ¥ | ¥ | ¥ |
| broken vertical bar | ¦ | ¦ | ¦ |
| section sign | § | § | § |
| copyright sign | © | © | © |
| feminine ordinal indicator | ª | ª | ª |
| masculine ordinal indicator | º | º | º |
| not sign | ¬ | ¬ | ¬ |
| registered trade mark sign | ® | ® | ® |
| degree sign | ° | ° | ° |
| paragraph sign | ¶ | ¶ | ¶ |
| latin capital letter A with grave | À | À | À |
| latin small letter a with grave | à | à | à |
| latin small letter a with acute | á | á | á |
| latin small letter a with circumflex | â | â | â |
| latin small letter a with tilde | ã | ã | ã |
| latin small letter a with diaeresis | ä | ä | ä |
| latin small letter a with ring above | å | å | å |
| latin small letter c with cedilla | ç | ç | ç |
| latin small letter n with tilde | ñ | ñ | ñ |
| division sign | ÷ | ÷ | ÷ |
| euro sign | € | € | € |
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