This web page is a human readable version of the DTD that can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-special.ent. This DTD specifies the available character entity for the Special set.
Typical invocation (for xhtml1) is by explicitly using the following tag in your document:
<!ENTITY % HTMLlat1 PUBLIC "-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin 1 for XHTML//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-special.ent">
Usage
The table below gives the entity name, and the numeric code for the character. If you for example want to put an apostroph mark (') in your text, you can use either:
Here is a apostroph mark ' in my text
Or you can use:
Here is a apostroph mark ' in my text
name | code | appearance | description | Category |
---|---|---|---|---|
C0 Controls and Basic Latin | ||||
quot | 34 | " | quotation mark = APL quote | U+0022 ISOnum |
amp | 38 | & | ampersand | U+0026 ISOnum |
lt | 60 | < | less-than sign | U+003C ISOnum |
gt | 62 | > | greater-than sign | U+003E ISOnum |
apos | 39 | ' | apostrophe mark | U+0027 ISOnum |
Latin Extended-A | ||||
OElig | 338 | Œ | latin capital ligature OE | U+0152 ISOlat2 |
oelig | 339 | œ | latin small ligature oe | U+0153 ISOlat2 |
ligature is a misnomer, this is a separate character in some languages | ||||
352 | Scaron | Š | latin capital letter S with caron | U+0160 ISOlat2 |
scaron | 353 | š | latin small letter s with caron | U+0161 ISOlat2 |
Yuml | 376 | Ÿ | latin capital letter Y with diaeresis | U+0178 ISOlat2 |
Spacing Modifier Letters | ||||
circ | 710 | ˆ | modifier letter circumflex accent | U+02C6 ISOpub |
tilde | 732 | ˜ | small tilde | U+02DC ISOdia |
General Punctuation | ||||
ensp | 8194 | en space | U+2002 ISOpub | |
emsp | 8195 | em space | U+2003 ISOpub | |
thinsp | 8201 | thin space | U+2009 ISOpub | |
zwnj | 8204 | | zero width non-joiner | U+200C NEW RFC 2070 |
zwj | 8205 | | zero width joiner | U+200D NEW RFC 2070 |
lrm | 8206 | | left-to-right mark | U+200E NEW RFC 2070 |
rlm | 8207 | | right-to-left mark | U+200F NEW RFC 2070 |
ndash | 8211 | – | en dash | U+2013 ISOpub |
mdash | 8212 | — | em dash | U+2014 ISOpub |
lsquo | 8216 | ‘ | left single quotation mark | U+2018 ISOnum |
rsquo | 8217 | ’ | right single quotation mark | U+2019 ISOnum |
sbquo | 8218 | ‚ | single low-9 quotation mark | U+201A NEW |
ldquo | 8220 | “ | left double quotation mark | U+201C ISOnum |
rdquo | 8221 | ” | right double quotation mark | U+201D ISOnum |
bdquo | 8222 | „ | double low-9 quotation mark | U+201E NEW |
dagger | 8224 | † | dagger | U+2020 ISOpub |
Dagger | 8225 | ‡ | double dagger | U+2021 ISOpub |
permil | 8240 | ‰ | per mille sign | U+2030 ISOtech |