Extended ASCII Characters for HTML
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Published on August 29, 1999
| HTML | Symbol | (Description) |
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| � –  | (Unused) | |
| 	 | (Horizontal tab) | |
| | (Line feed) | |
|  –  | (Unused) | |
| | (Carriage Return) | |
|  –  | (Unused) | |
|   | (Space) | |
| ! | ! | (Exclamation mark) |
| " | “ | (Quotation mark) |
| # | # | (Number sign) |
| $ | $ | (Dollar sign) |
| % | % | (Percent sign) |
| & | & | (Ampersand) |
| ' | ‘ | (Apostrophe) |
| ( | ( | (Left parenthesis) |
| ) | ) | (Right parenthesis) |
| * | * | (Asterisk) |
| + | + | (Plus sign) |
| , | , | (Comma) |
| - | – | (Hyphen) |
| . | . | (Period (fullstop)) |
| / | / | (Solidus (slash) |
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| 0 | 0 | (Digit 0) |
| 1 | 1 | (Digit 1) |
| 2 | 2 | (Digit 2) |
| 3 | 3 | (Digit 3) |
| 4 | 4 | (Digit 4) |
| 5 | 5 | (Digit 5) |
| 6 | 6 | (Digit 6) |
| 7 | 7 | (Digit 7) |
| 8 | 8 | (Digit 8) |
| 9 | 9 | (Digit 9) |
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| : | : | (Colon) |
| ; | ; | (Semi-colon) |
| < | < | (Less than) |
| = | = | (Equals sign) |
| > | > | (Greater than) |
| ? | ? | (Question mark) |
| @ | @ | (Commercial at) |
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| A | A | (Capital letter A) |
| B | B | (Capital letter B) |
| C | C | (Capital letter C) |
| D | D | (Capital letter D) |
| E | E | (Capital letter E) |
| F | F | (Capital letter F) |
| G | G | (Capital letter G) |
| H | H | (Capital letter H) |
| I | I | (Capital letter I) |
| J | J | (Capital letter J) |
| K | K | (Capital letter K) |
| L | L | (Capital letter L) |
| M | M | (Capital letter M) |
| N | N | (Capital letter N) |
| O | O | (Capital letter O) |
| P | P | (Capital letter P) |
| Q | Q | (Capital letter Q) |
| R | R | (Capital letter R) |
| S | S | (Capital letter S) |
| T | T | (Capital letter T) |
| U | U | (Capital letter U) |
| V | V | (Capital letter V) |
| W | W | (Capital letter W) |
| X | X | (Capital letter X) |
| Y | Y | (Capital letter Y) |
| Z | Z | (Capital letter Z) |
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| [ | [ | (Left square bracket) |
| \ | \ | (Reverse solidus (backslash)) |
| ] | ] | (Right square bracket) |
| ^ | ^ | (Caret) |
| _ | _ | (Horizontal bar) |
| ` | ` | (Grave accent) |
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| a | a | (Small letter a) |
| b | b | (Small letter b) |
| c | c | (Small letter c) |
| d | d | (Small letter d) |
| e | e | (Small letter e) |
| f | f | (Small letter f) |
| g | g | (Small letter g) |
| h | h | (Small letter h) |
| i | i | (Small letter i) |
| j | j | (Small letter j) |
| k | k | (Small letter k) |
| l | l | (Small letter l) |
| m | m | (Small letter m) |
| n | n | (Small letter n) |
| o | o | (Small letter o) |
| p | p | (Small letter p) |
| q | q | (Small letter q) |
| r | r | (Small letter r) |
| s | s | (Small letter s) |
| t | t | (Small letter t) |
| u | u | (Small letter u) |
| v | v | (Small letter v) |
| w | w | (Small letter w) |
| x | x | (Small letter x) |
| y | y | (Small letter y) |
| z | z | (Small letter z) |
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| { | { | (Left french brace) |
| | | | | (Vertical bar) |
| } | } | (Right french brace) |
| ~ | ~ | (Tilde) |
|  – Ÿ | (Unused) | |
|   | (Non-breaking space) | |
| ¡ | ¡ | (Inverted exclamation) |
| ¢ | ¢ | (Cent sign) |
| £ | £ | (Pound sterling) |
| ¤ | ¤ | (General currency sign) |
| ¥ | ¥ | (Yen sign) |
| ¦ | ¦ | (Broken vertical bar) |
| § | § | (Section sign) |
| ¨ | ¨ | (Umlaut (dieresis)) |
| © | © | (Copyright) |
| ª | ª | (Feminine ordinal) |
| « | « | (Left angle quote, guillemotleft) |
| ¬ | ¬ | (Not sign) |
| ­ | | (Soft hyphen) |
| ® | ® | (Registered trademark) |
| ¯ | ¯ | (Macron accent) |
| ° | ° | (Degree sign) |
| ± | ± | (Plus or minus) |
| ² | ² | (Superscript two) |
| ³ | ³ | (Superscript three) |
| ´ | ´ | (Acute accent) |
| µ | µ | (Micro sign) |
| ¶ | ¶ | (Paragraph sign) |
| · | · | (Middle dot) |
| ¸ | ¸ | (Cedilla) |
| ¹ | ¹ | (Superscript one) |
| º | º | (Masculine ordinal) |
| » | » | (Right angle quote, guillemotright) |
| ¼ | ¼ | (Fraction one-fourth) |
| ½ | ½ | (Fraction one-half) |
| ¾ | ¾ | (Fraction three-fourths) |
| ¿ | ¿ | (Inverted question mark) |
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| À | À | (Capital A, grave accent) |
| Á | Á | (Capital A, acute accent) |
| Â | Â | (Capital A, circumflex accent) |
| Ã | Ã | (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 accent) |
| 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, actue accent) |
| ô | ô | (Small o, circumflex accent) |
| õ | õ | (Small o, tilde) |
| ö | ö | (Small o, dieresis or umlaut mark) |
| ÷ | ÷ | (Division 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) |
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