ISO-9959-1 is the default character set for most of the modern browsers used today. These entities are used in place of the reserved/special characters or characters not easily entered with a keyboard.
HTML Reserved Characters
Reserved characters in HTML are those used for the markup. For example, greater than (>) and less than (<) signs are used to encapsulate HMTL tags. Therefore, these characters should not be used within your text because the browser could mistaken them as a part of your markup.
| Character | Entity Number | Entity Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| " | " | " | quotation mark |
| ' | ' | ' (does not work in IE) | apostrophe |
| & | & | & | ampersand |
| < | < | < | less-than |
| > | > | > | greater-than |
ISO 8859-1 Symbols
| Character | Entity Number | Entity Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|   | non-breaking space | ||
| ¡ | ¡¡inverted exclamation mark | ||
| ¢ | ¢¢cent | ||
| £ | ££pound | ||
| ¤ | ¤¤currency | ||
| ¥ | ¥¥yen | ||
| ¦ | ¦¦broken vertical bar | ||
| § | §§section | ||
| ¨ | ¨¨spacing diaeresis | ||
| © | ©©copyright | ||
| ª | ªªfeminine ordinal indicator | ||
| « | ««angle quotation mark (left) | ||
| ¬ | ¬¬negation | ||
| | ­­soft hyphen | ||
| ® | ®®registered trademark | ||
| ¯ | ¯¯spacing macron | ||
| ° | °°degree | ||
| ± | ±±plus-or-minus | ||
| ² | ²²superscript 2 | ||
| ³ | ³³superscript 3 | ||
| ´ | ´´spacing acute | ||
| µ | µµmicro | ||
| ¶ | ¶¶paragraph | ||
| · | ··middle dot | ||
| ¸ | ¸¸spacing cedilla | ||
| ¹ | ¹¹superscript 1 | ||
| º | ººmasculine ordinal indicator | ||
| » | »»angle quotation mark (right) | ||
| ¼ | ¼¼fraction 1/4 | ||
| ½ | ½½fraction 1/2 | ||
| ¾ | ¾¾fraction 3/4 | ||
| ¿ | ¿¿inverted question mark | ||
| × | ××multiplication | ||
| ÷ | ÷÷division |