HTML 4.01 supports the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) character set.

The lower part of ISO-8859-1 (codes from 0-127) is the original 7-BIT ASCII standard. Most of these characters can be used without a character reference.

The higher part of ISO-8859-1 (codes from 160-255) can all be used using character entity names. Note that the entity names are case sensitive.

ASCII Entities with new Entity Names

Result	Description	Entity name	Entity Number
"	quotation mark	"	"
'	apostrophe	' (does not work in IE)	'
&	ampersand	&	&
<	less-than	&lt;	&#60;
>	greater-than	&gt;	&#62;

ISO 8859-1 Symbol Entities

Result	Description	Entity name	Entity Number
"	quotation mark	"	"
	non-breaking space	 	 
?	inverted exclamation mark	¡	¡
¤	currency	¤	¤
?	cent	¢	¢
?	pound	£	£
?	yen	¥	¥
¦	broken vertical bar	¦	¦
§	section	§	§
¨	spacing diaeresis	¨	¨
©	copyright	©	©
?	feminine ordinal indicator	ª	ª
«	angle quotation mark (left)	«	«
¬	negation	¬	¬
­	soft hyphen	­	­
®	registered trademark	®	®
™	trademark	™	™
?	spacing macron	¯	¯
°	degree	°	°
±	plus-or-minus	±	±
?	superscript 2	²	²
?	superscript 3	³	³
?	spacing acute	´	´
µ	micro	µ	µ
¶	paragraph	¶	¶
·	middle dot	·	·
?	spacing cedilla	¸	¸
?	superscript 1	¹	¹
?	masculine ordinal indicator	º	º
»	angle quotation mark (right)	»	»
?	fraction 1/4	¼	¼
?	fraction 1/2	½	½
?	fraction 3/4	¾	¾
?	inverted question mark	¿	¿
?	multiplication	×	×
?	division	÷	÷

ISO 8859-1 Character Entities

Result	Description	Entity name	Entity Number
A	capital a, grave accent	À	À
A	capital a, acute accent	Á	Á
A	capital a, circumflex accent	Â	Â
A	capital a, tilde	Ã	Ã
Ä	capital a, umlaut mark	Ä	Ä
A	capital a, ring	Å	Å
?	capital ae	Æ	Æ
C	capital c, cedilla	Ç	Ç
E	capital e, grave accent	È	È
E	capital e, acute accent	É	É
E	capital e, circumflex accent	Ê	Ê
Ë	capital e, umlaut mark	Ë	Ë
I	capital i, grave accent	Ì	Ì
I	capital i, acute accent	Í	Í
I	capital i, circumflex accent	Î	Î
Ï	capital i, umlaut mark	Ï	Ï
?	capital eth, Icelandic	Ð	Ð
N	capital n, tilde	Ñ	Ñ
O	capital o, grave accent	Ò	Ò
O	capital o, acute accent	Ó	Ó
O	capital o, circumflex accent	Ô	Ô
O	capital o, tilde	Õ	Õ
Ö	capital o, umlaut mark	Ö	Ö
O	capital o, slash	Ø	Ø
U	capital u, grave accent	Ù	Ù
U	capital u, acute accent	Ú	Ú
U	capital u, circumflex accent	Û	Û
Ü	capital u, umlaut mark	Ü	Ü
Y	capital y, acute accent	Ý	Ý
?	capital THORN, Icelandic	Þ	Þ
?	small sharp s, German	ß	ß
a	small a, grave accent	à	à
a	small a, acute accent	á	á
a	small a, circumflex accent	â	â
a	small a, tilde	ã	ã
ä	small a, umlaut mark	ä	ä
a	small a, ring	å	å
?	small ae	æ	æ
c	small c, cedilla	ç	ç
e	small e, grave accent	è	è
e	small e, acute accent	é	é
e	small e, circumflex accent	ê	ê
ë	small e, umlaut mark	ë	ë
i	small i, grave accent	ì	ì
i	small i, acute accent	í	í
i	small i, circumflex accent	î	î
ï	small i, umlaut mark	ï	ï
?	small eth, Icelandic	ð	ð
n	small n, tilde	ñ	ñ
o	small o, grave accent	ò	ò
o	small o, acute accent	ó	ó
o	small o, circumflex accent	ô	ô
o	small o, tilde	õ	õ
ö	small o, umlaut mark	ö	ö
o	small o, slash	ø	ø
u	small u, grave accent	ù	ù
u	small u, acute accent	ú	ú
u	small u, circumflex accent	û	û
ü	small u, umlaut mark	ü	ü
y	small y, acute accent	ý	ý
?	small thorn, Icelandic	þ	þ
ÿ	small y, umlaut mark	ÿ	ÿ

Some Other Entities supported by HTML

Result	Description	Entity name	Entity Number
?	capital ligature OE	Œ	Œ
?	small ligature oe	œ	œ
S	capital S with caron	Š	Š
s	small S with caron	š	š
Y	capital Y with diaeres	Ÿ	Ÿ
?	modifier letter circumflex accent	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	‡	‡
…	horizontal ellipsis	…	…
‰	per mille	‰	‰
‹	single left-pointing angle quotation	‹	‹
›	single right-pointing angle quotation	›	›
ˆ	euro	€	€

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