About Entities
The original HTML-language does not allow special characters other than the usual ones in the English language. To write a Swedish å, ä or ö, to write accents of e and other characters or to insert symbols like $ and ©, there are so called entities. An entity begins with an ampersand and ends with a semicolon, and in between, there are usually the character that is enhanced followed by a few more letters that indicates how it would appear. For example, é means é. An entity can also be written using "" followed by the character value and finally a semicolon.
The standard used to define entities is called ISO Latin-1. Today, many pages do have special characters anyway, since most browsers will understand them. If you're not using entities, you should include in the head-section of your page.
Special Characters
There are a few characters that must be coded in different ways since they are otherwise used to define HTML-code, unless they are used within a set of SAMP-tags. You may use quotes and amps in the text, but not in tags (such as the ALT-text of an IMG-tag). These letters are
< #60 <
> #62 >
& #38 &
> #62 >
Also the non-breaking space entity is useful, since the browser normally won't care about multiple spaces, while multiple non-breaking spaces can be used as a simple way to add some horizontal space.
#160
Other Special Characters
Some of these characters cannot be printed in Courier, which is used here, or in Times that is the standard www-font. If you need characters that doesn't appear correctly, make it as a picture instead.
† #134
‡ #135
^ #136
‰ #137
Sˇ #138
Œ #140
™ #153
sˇ #154
œ #156
Ÿ #159
¡ #161
¢ #162
£ #163
€ #164
¥ #165
§ #167
¨ #168
© #169 ©
a #170
« #171
¬ #172
– #173
® #174 ®
— #175
° #176
± #177
2 #178
3 #179
´ #180
µ #181
¶ #182
· #183
, #184
1 #185
˚ #186
» #187
1/4 #188
1/2 #189
3/4 #190
¿ #191
À #192 À
Á #193 Á
 #194 Â
à #195 Ã
Ä #196 Ä
Å #197 Å
Æ #198 &Aelig;
Ç #199 Ç
È #200 È
É #201 É
Ê #202 Ê
Ë #203 Ë
Ì #204 Ì
Í #205 Í
Î #206 Î
Ï #207 Ï
-D #208 Ð
Ñ #209 Ñ
Ò #210 Ò
Ó #211 Ó
Ô #212 Ô
Õ #213 Õ
Ö #214 Ö
x #215
Ø #216 Ø
Ù #217 Ù
Ú #218 Ú
Û #219 Û
Ü #220 Ü
y´ #221 Ý
l> #222 Þ
ß #223 ß
à #224 à
á #225 á
â #226 â
ã #227 ã
ä #228 ä
å #229 å
æ #230 æ
ç #231 ç
è #232 è
é #233 é
ê #234 è
ë #235 ë
ì #236 ì
í #237 í
î #238 î
ï #239 ï
∂ #240 ð
ñ #241 ñ
ò #242 ò
ó #243 ó
ô #244 ô
õ #245 õ
ö #246 ö
÷ #247
ø #248 ø
ù #249 ù
ú #250 ú
û #251 û
ü #252 ü
y´ #253 ý
l> #254 þ
ÿ #255 ÿ