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# 8 Character Entities

### 8.1 Added Latin 1

The OTP DTD suite uses the same character entities as defined in HTML 3.2 (ISO 8879-1986//ENTITIES Added Latin 1//EN//HTML). That is: for an & (ampersand), use the entity: &amp;, for ö use the entity &ouml; and so on.

Character | Entity | Description
& | &amp; | ampersand
> | &gt; | greater than
< | &lt; | less than
| &nbsp; | no-break space
¡ | &iexcl; | inverted exclamation mark
¢ | &cent; | cent sign
£ | &pound; | pound sterling sign
¤ | &curren; | general currency sign
¥ | &yen; | yen sign
¦ | &brvbar; | broken (vertical) bar
§ | &sect; | section sign
¨ | &uml; | umlaut (dieresis)
© | &copy; | copyright sign
ª | &ordf; | ordinal indicator, feminine
« | &laquo; | angle quotation mark, left
¬ | &not; | not sign
| &shy; | soft hyphen
® | &reg; | registered sign
¯ | &macr; | macron
° | &deg; | degree sign
± | &plusmn; | plus-or-minus
² | &sup2; | superscript two
³ | &sup3; | superscript three
´ | &acute; | acute accent
µ | &micro; | micro sign
¶ | &para; | pilcrow (paragraph sign)
· | &middot; | middle dot
¸ | &cedil; | cedilla
¹ | &sup1; | superscript one
º | &ordm; | ordinal indicator, masculine
» | &raquo; | angle quotation mark, right
¼ | &frac14; | fraction one-quarter
½ | &frac12; | fraction one-half
¾ | &frac34; | fraction three-quarters
¿ | &iquest; | inverted question mark
À | &Agrave; | capital A, grave accent
Á | &Aacute; | capital A, acute accent
Â | &Acirc; | capital A, circumflex accent
Ã | &Atilde; | capital A, tilde
Ä | &Auml; | capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark
Å | &Aring; | capital A, ring
Æ | &AElig; | capital AE diphthong (ligature)
Ç | &Ccedil; | capital C, cedilla
È | &Egrave; | capital E, grave accent
É | &Eacute; | capital E, acute accen
Ê | &Ecirc; | capital E, circumflex accent
Ë | &Euml; | capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark
Ì | &Igrave; | capital I, grave accent
Í | &Iacute; | capital I, acute accent
Î | &Icirc; | capital I, circumflex accent
Ï | &Iuml; | capital I, dieresis or umlaut mark
Ð | &ETH; | capital Eth, Icelandic
Ñ | &Ntilde; | capital N, tilde
Ò | &Ograve; | capital O, grave accent
Ó | &Oacute; | capital O, acute accent
Ô | &Ocirc; | capital O, circumflex accent
Õ | &Otilde; | capital O, tilde
Ö | &Ouml; | capital O, dieresis or umlaut mark
× | &times; | multiply sign
Ø | &Oslash; | capital O, slash
Ù | &Ugrave; | capital U, grave accent
Ú | &Uacute; | capital U, acute accent
Û | &Ucirc; | capital U, circumflex accent
Ü | &Uuml; | capital U, dieresis or umlaut mark
Ý | &Yacute; | capital Y, acute accent
Þ | &THORN; | capital THORN, Icelandic
ß | &szlig; | small sharp s, German (sz ligature)
à | &agrave; | small a, grave accent
á | &aacute; | small a, acute accent
â | &acirc; | small a, circumflex accent
ã | &atilde; | small a, tilde
ä | &auml; | small a, dieresis or umlaut mark
å | &aring; | small a, ring
æ | &aelig; | small ae diphthong (ligature)
ç | &ccedil; | small c, cedilla
è | &egrave; | small e, grave accent
é | &eacute; | small e, acute accent
ê | &ecirc; | small e, circumflex accent
ë | &euml; | small e, dieresis or umlaut mark
ì | &igrave; | small i, grave accent
í | &iacute; | small i, acute accent
î | &icirc; | small i, circumflex accent
ï | &iuml; | small i, dieresis or umlaut mark
ð | &eth; | small eth, Icelandic
ñ | &ntilde; | small n, tilde
ò | &ograve; | small o, grave accent
ó | &oacute; | small o, acute accent
ô | &ocirc; | small o, circumflex accent
õ | &otilde; | small o, tilde
ö | &ouml; | small o, dieresis or umlaut mark
÷ | &divide; | divide sign
ø | &oslash; | small o, slash
ù | &ugrave; | small u, grave accent
ú | &uacute; | small u, acute accent
û | &ucirc; | small u, circumflex accent
ü | &uuml; | small u, dieresis or umlaut mark
ý | &yacute; | small y, acute accent
þ | &thorn; | small thorn, Icelandic
ÿ | &yuml; | small y, dieresis or umlaut mark

Table 8.1: Accented Latin-1 alphabetic characters.