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Getting special characters on to your web pages.
The Internet is normally limited to the “7-bit ASCII characters”, a combination of a few special control codes, upper and lower case letters, decimal digits, and a few punctuation and special characters (see chart below).
Sooner or later you are going to want to expand beyond that limited set of characters, whether to use typographical symbols, accented letters, non-English characters, or whatever.
HTML provides a system called “meta-characters” to indicate to a web browser that particular special characters are desired. This is also the system used for putting characters such as ", &, #, <, >, and ; (normally used as parts of HTML tags and attributes) into your web pages.
The format for a meta-character is &#digits; or &name;.
Because of the large size of the tables of special characters, they have been moved to four separate web pages (hopefully this will help those with slow MODEMs actually load and view these charts):
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