special characters

HTML ampersand-semicolon
notation.

The four HTML special characters ampersand &   less then <   greater than >   and double quote "   must be especially written as   &amp;   &lt;   &gt;   and   &quot;   respectively. See first four big codes below.

Other characters which are not in the standard (seven bit) ASCII charset can be written in ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 charsets. Or in ampersand-semicolon notation, for example the Euro symbol as &euro; or &#8364; where 8364 is the Unicode decimal value for the Euro symbol.

Confused? See Character encodings in HTML - W3C tutorial and miscellaneous UTC symbols and especially ways of representing any Unicode character in HTML using only ASCII characters. Note that W3C, the World Wide Web Consortium, is the standard for HTML design.

Verwirrt? Siehe Zeichenvorrat, Sonderzeichen und HTML-eigene Zeichen und Unicode und W3C auf Deutsch, das World Wide Web Consortium.

Some codes that I use are listed below. Note the different umlauts, quotes and dashes.