More Special Characters
With the exception of HTML 2.0‘s “, &, <, and >, browser support for these entities is generally poor. Recent browsers support some of these character entity references and decimal character references, and more are sure to come.
| Character | Entity | Decimal | Hex | Rendering in Your Browser | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entity | Decimal | Hex | ||||
| quotation mark = APL quote | “ | “ | “ | “ | “ | “ |
| ampersand | & | & | & | & | & | & |
| less-than sign | < | < | < | |||
| Latin capital ligature OE | Œ | Œ | Œ | Œ | Œ | Œ |
| Latin small ligature oe | œ | œ | œ | œ | œ | œ |
| Latin capital letter S with caron | Š | Š | Š | Š | Š | Š |
| Latin small letter s with caron | š | š | š | š | š | š |
| Latin capital letter Y with diaeresis | Ÿ | Ÿ | Ÿ | Ÿ | Ÿ | Ÿ |
| modifier letter circumflex accent | ˆ | ˆ | ˆ | ˆ | ˆ | ˆ |
| small tilde | ˜ | ˜ | ˜ | ˜ | ˜ | ˜ |
| en space | ||||||
| em space | ||||||
| thin space | ||||||
| zero width non-joiner | | | | | | |
| zero width joiner | | | | | | |
| left-to-right mark | | | | | | |
| right-to-left mark | | | | | | |
| en dash | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| em dash | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| left single quotation mark | ‘ | ‘ | ‘ | ‘ | ‘ | ‘ |
| right single quotation mark | ’ | ’ | ’ | ’ | ’ | ’ |
| single low-9 quotation mark | ‚ | ‚ | ‚ | ‚ | ‚ | ‚ |
| left double quotation mark | “ | “ | “ | “ | “ | “ |
| right double quotation mark | ” | ” | ” | ” | ” | ” |
| double low-9 quotation mark | „ | „ | „ | „ | „ | „ |
| dagger | † | † | † | † | † | † |
| double dagger | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ |
| per mille sign | ‰ | ‰ | ‰ | ‰ | ‰ | ‰ |
| single left-pointing angle quotation mark | ‹ | ‹ | ‹ | ‹ | ‹ | ‹ |
| single right-pointing angle quotation mark | › | › | › | › | › | › |
| euro sign | € | € | € | € | € | € |
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