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Visual style guide for Office of the Chancellor Web templates
Special characters
The following are references for ISO 8859-1 characters commonly used in HTML documents. The "code" for each character must be copied into the HTML source code in order for the character to properly display on a Web page.
For more character set and further information about ISO 8859-1 characters, please refer to the following simple character entity chart or the W3C character entity reference chart.
Commonly used characters
| Character |
Description |
Code |
| ´ |
acute accent |
´ |
| & |
ampersand |
& |
| ∗ |
asterisk |
∗ |
| ¦ |
broken bar |
¦ |
| • |
bullet |
• |
| ¢ |
cent sign |
¢ |
| © |
copyright sign |
© |
| … |
ellipsis |
… |
| – |
en dash |
– |
| — |
em dash |
— |
| ¶ |
paragraph/pilcrow sign |
¶ |
| " |
quotation mark |
" |
| “ |
quotation mark, left double |
“ |
| ” |
quotation mark, right double |
” |
| ‘ |
quotation mark, left single |
‘ |
| ’ |
quotation mark, right single |
’ |
| « |
quotation mark, left-pointing double angle |
« |
| » |
quotation mark, right-pointing double angle |
» |
| ‹ |
quotation mark, single left-pointing angle |
‹ |
| › |
quotation mark, single right-pointing angle |
› |
| ® |
registered sign |
® |
| ™ |
trade mark sign |
™ |
Mathematical Symbols
| Character |
Description |
Code |
| ¼ |
fraction one quarter |
¼ |
| ½ |
fraction one half |
½ |
| ¾ |
fraction three quarters |
¾ |
| ° |
degree sign |
° |
| ÷ |
division sign |
÷ |
| − |
minus sign |
− |
| ± |
plus-minus sign |
± |
| × |
multiplication sign |
× |
| < |
less-than sign |
< |
| > |
greater-than sign |
> |
| ≤ |
less-than or equal to |
≤ |
| ≥ |
greater-than or equal to |
≥ |
| ¹ |
superscript one |
¹ |
| ² |
superscript two |
² |
| ³ |
superscript three |
³ |
| ← |
leftwards arrow |
← |
| ↑ |
upwards arrow |
↑ |
| → |
rightwards arrow |
→ |
| ↓ |
downwards arrow |
↓ |
| ↔ |
left right arrow |
↔ |
| ⇐ |
leftwards double arrow |
⇐ |
| ⇑ |
upwards double arrow |
⇑ |
| ⇒ |
rightwards double arrow |
⇒ |
| ⇓ |
downwards double arrow |
⇓ |
| ⇔ |
left right double arrow |
⇔ |
| √ |
square root |
√ |
| ∞ |
infinity |
∞ |
| ∠ |
angle |
∠ |
| ∴ |
therefore |
∴ |
| 〈 |
left-pointing angle bracket |
⟨ |
| 〉 |
right-pointing angle bracket |
⟩ |
Special Latin characters
| Character |
Description |
Code |
| À |
latin capital letter A with grave |
À |
| Á |
latin capital letter A with acute |
Á |
| Ã |
latin capital letter A with tilde |
à |
| Æ |
latin capital letter AE |
Æ |
| È |
latin capital letter E with grave |
È |
| É |
latin capital letter E with acute |
É |
| Ì |
latin capital letter I with grave |
Ì |
| Í |
latin capital letter I with acute |
Í |
| Ñ |
latin capital letter N with tilde |
Ñ |
| Ò |
latin capital letter O with grave |
Ò |
| Ó |
latin capital letter O with acute |
Ó |
| Õ |
latin capital letter O with tilde |
Õ |
| Ø |
latin capital letter O with stroke |
Ø |
| Ù |
latin capital letter U with grave |
Ù |
| Ú |
latin capital letter U with acute |
Ú |
| à |
latin small letter a with grave |
à |
| á |
latin small letter a with acute |
á |
| ã |
latin small letter a with tilde |
ã |
| æ |
latin small letter ae |
æ |
| ç |
latin small letter c with cedilla |
ç |
| è |
latin small letter e with grave |
è |
| é |
latin small letter e with acute |
é |
| ì |
latin small letter i with grave |
ì |
| í |
latin small letter i with acute |
í |
| ñ |
latin small letter n with tilde |
ñ |
| ò |
latin small letter o with grave |
ò |
| ó |
latin small letter o with acute |
ó |
| õ |
latin small letter o with tilde |
õ |
| ø |
latin small letter o with stroke |
ø |
| ù |
latin small letter u with grave |
ù |
| ú |
latin small letter u with acute |
ú |
| ý |
latin small letter y with acute |
ý |
