8 Character Entities
8.1 Added Latin 1
The DocBuilder DTD suite uses the same character entities as defined in HTML 3.2 (ISO 8879-1986//ENTITIES Added Latin 1//EN//HTML). That is: for an & (ampersand), use the entity: &, for ö use the entity ö and so on.
Character | Entity | Description |
& | & | ampersand |
> | > | greater than |
< | < | less than |
| no-break space | |
¡ | ¡ | inverted exclamation mark |
¢ | ¢ | cent sign |
£ | £ | pound sterling sign |
¤ | ¤ | general currency sign |
¥ | ¥ | yen sign |
¦ | ¦ | broken (vertical) bar |
§ | § | section sign |
¨ | ¨ | umlaut (dieresis) |
© | © | copyright sign |
ª | ª | ordinal indicator, feminine |
« | « | angle quotation mark, left |
¬ | ¬ | not sign |
| ­ | soft hyphen |
® | ® | registered sign |
¯ | ¯ | macron |
° | ° | degree sign |
± | ± | plus-or-minus |
² | ² | superscript two |
³ | ³ | superscript three |
´ | ´ | acute accent |
µ | µ | micro sign |
¶ | ¶ | pilcrow (paragraph sign) |
· | · | middle dot |
¸ | ¸ | cedilla |
¹ | ¹ | superscript one |
º | º | ordinal indicator, masculine |
» | » | angle quotation mark, right |
¼ | ¼ | fraction one-quarter |
½ | ½ | fraction one-half |
¾ | ¾ | fraction three-quarters |
¿ | ¿ | inverted question mark |
À | À | capital A, grave accent |
Á | Á | capital A, acute accent |
 |  | capital A, circumflex accent |
à | à | capital A, tilde |
Ä | Ä | capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark |
Å | Å | capital A, ring |
Æ | Æ | capital AE diphthong (ligature) |
Ç | Ç | capital C, cedilla |
È | È | capital E, grave accent |
É | É | capital E, acute accen |
Ê | Ê | capital E, circumflex accent |
Ë | Ë | capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark |
Ì | Ì | capital I, grave accent |
Í | Í | capital I, acute accent |
Î | Î | capital I, circumflex accent |
Ï | Ï | capital I, dieresis or umlaut mark |
Ð | Ð | capital Eth, Icelandic |
Ñ | Ñ | capital N, tilde |
Ò | Ò | capital O, grave accent |
Ó | Ó | capital O, acute accent |
Ô | Ô | capital O, circumflex accent |
Õ | Õ | capital O, tilde |
Ö | Ö | capital O, dieresis or umlaut mark |
× | × | multiply sign |
Ø | Ø | capital O, slash |
Ù | Ù | capital U, grave accent |
Ú | Ú | capital U, acute accent |
Û | Û | capital U, circumflex accent |
Ü | Ü | capital U, dieresis or umlaut mark |
Ý | Ý | capital Y, acute accent |
Þ | Þ | capital THORN, Icelandic |
ß | ß | small sharp s, German (sz ligature) |
à | à | small a, grave accent |
á | á | small a, acute accent |
â | â | small a, circumflex accent |
ã | ã | small a, tilde |
ä | ä | small a, dieresis or umlaut mark |
å | å | small a, ring |
æ | æ | small ae diphthong (ligature) |
ç | ç | small c, cedilla |
è | è | small e, grave accent |
é | é | small e, acute accent |
ê | ê | small e, circumflex accent |
ë | ë | small e, dieresis or umlaut mark |
ì | ì | small i, grave accent |
í | í | small i, acute accent |
î | î | small i, circumflex accent |
ï | ï | small i, dieresis or umlaut mark |
ð | ð | small eth, Icelandic |
ñ | ñ | small n, tilde |
ò | ò | small o, grave accent |
ó | ó | small o, acute accent |
ô | ô | small o, circumflex accent |
õ | õ | small o, tilde |
ö | ö | small o, dieresis or umlaut mark |
÷ | ÷ | divide sign |
ø | ø | small o, slash |
ù | ù | small u, grave accent |
ú | ú | small u, acute accent |
û | û | small u, circumflex accent |
ü | ü | small u, dieresis or umlaut mark |
ý | ý | small y, acute accent |
þ | þ | small thorn, Icelandic |
ÿ | ÿ | small y, dieresis or umlaut mark |