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| the character entity html code (1st column) | as seen by you in the web browser (3rd column) | the named entity html code (6th column) | as seen by you in the web browser (8th column) |
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one blank space (aka non-breaking space) (aka one hard space) (aka one physical blank space) | |||||||
|   | gives you this | ...and... | ...or... | | gives you this | ||
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the inverted exclamation mark | |||||||
| ¡ | gives you this | ¡ | ...and... | ...or... | ¡ | gives you this | ¡ |
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the inverted question mark | |||||||
| ¿ | gives you this | ¿ | ...and... | ...or... | ¿ | gives you this | ¿ |
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the cent sign (aka the american penny symbol) | |||||||
| ¢ | gives you this | ¢ | ...and... | ...or... | ¢ | gives you this | ¢ |
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the pound sign (aka the english pound symbol) | |||||||
| £ | gives you this | £ | ...and... | ...or... | £ | gives you this | £ |
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the currency sign (i suppose so, since i am seeing a circle with 4 protruding little lines) | |||||||
| ¤ | gives you this | ¤ | ...and... | ...or... | ¤ | gives you this | ¤ |
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the yen sign (aka the japanese yen symbol) | |||||||
| ¥ | gives you this | ¥ | ...and... | ...or... | ¥ | gives you this | ¥ |
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the broken vertical bar | |||||||
| ¦ | gives you this | ¦ | ...and... | ...or... | ¦ | gives you this | ¦ |
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the section sign (if they say so...) | |||||||
| § | gives you this | § | ...and... | ...or... | § | gives you this | § |
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diaeresis (aka the spacing diaeresis) | |||||||
| ¨ | gives you this | ¨ | ...and... | ...or... | ¨ | gives you this | ¨ |
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the copyright sign [a favorite of microsoft © ® ™ ] | |||||||
| © | gives you this | © | ...and... | ...or... | © | gives you this | © |
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the registered sign (another microsoft © ® ™ favorite) | |||||||
| ® | gives you this | ® | ...and... | ...or... | ® | gives you this | ® |
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the trademark sign (yet another microsoft © ® ™ favorite) [hopefully you see a small offset TM in column 8] | |||||||
| ™ | gives you this | ™ | ...and... | ...or... | ™ | gives you this | ™ |
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feminine ordinal indicator | |||||||
| ª | gives you this | ª | ...and... | ...or... | ª | gives you this | ª |
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masculine ordinal indicator | |||||||
| º | gives you this | º | ...and... | ...or... | º | gives you this | º |
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left pointing double angle quotation mark (aka left pointing guillemet) | |||||||
| « | gives you this | « | ...and... | ...or... | « | gives you this | « |
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right pointing double angle quotation mark (aka right pointing guillemet) | |||||||
| » | gives you this | » | ...and... | ...or... | » | gives you this | » |
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the not sign (if they say so...) | |||||||
| ¬ | gives you this | ¬ | ...and... | ...or... | ¬ | gives you this | ¬ |
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the soft hyphen (aka the discretionary hyphen) | |||||||
| ­ | gives you this | | ...and... | ...or... | ­ | gives you this | |
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the macron (aka the spacing macron) (aka the overline) | |||||||
| ¯ | gives you this | ¯ | ...and... | ...or... | ¯ | gives you this | ¯ |
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the degree sign [as in geometry] | |||||||
| ° | gives you this | ° | ...and... | ...or... | ° | gives you this | ° |
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the plus minus sign (aka the plus or minus sign) | |||||||
| ± | gives you this | ± | ...and... | ...or... | ± | gives you this | ± |
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the superscript one (aka the superscript digit one) | |||||||
| ¹ | gives you this | ¹ | ...and... | ...or... | ¹ | gives you this | ¹ |
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the superscript two (aka the superscript digit two) | |||||||
| ² | gives you this | ² | ...and... | ...or... | ² | gives you this | ² |
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the superscript three (aka the superscript digit three) | |||||||
| ³ | gives you this | ³ | ...and... | ...or... | ³ | gives you this | ³ |
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the acute accent (aka the spacing acute) | |||||||
| ´ | gives you this | ´ | ...and... | ...or... | ´ | gives you this | ´ |
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the micro sign [as in the metric system measurement] | |||||||
| µ | gives you this | µ | ...and... | ...or... | µ | gives you this | µ |
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the pilcrow sign (aka the paragraph sign) | |||||||
| ¶ | gives you this | ¶ | ...and... | ...or... | ¶ | gives you this | ¶ |
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the middle dot (aka the georgian comma) (aka the greek middle dot) | |||||||
| · | gives you this | · | ...and... | ...or... | · | gives you this | · |
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the cedilla (aka the spacing cedilla) | |||||||
| ¸ | gives you this | ¸ | ...and... | ...or... | ¸ | gives you this | ¸ |
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the vulgar fraction one quarter [where vulgar means common] [it's in the dictionary!] | |||||||
| ¼ | gives you this | ¼ | ...and... | ...or... | ¼ | gives you this | ¼ |
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the vulgar fraction one half [where vulgar means common] [i'm not kidding, look it up.] | |||||||
| ½ | gives you this | ½ | ...and... | ...or... | ½ | gives you this | ½ |
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the vulgar fraction three quarters [where vulgar means common] [as in commonplace, jeepers!] | |||||||
| ¾ | gives you this | ¾ | ...and... | ...or... | ¾ | gives you this | ¾ |
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the multiplication sign [as in mathematics] | |||||||
| × | gives you this | × | ...and... | ...or... | × | gives you this | × |
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the division sign [as in mathematics] | |||||||
| ÷ | gives you this | ÷ | ...and... | ...or... | ÷ | gives you this | ÷ |
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the quotation mark (aka the APL quote) {whatever APL means} | |||||||
| " | gives you this | " | ...and... | ...or... | " | gives you this | " |
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the ampersand [no sign, no symbol, just an ampersand] | |||||||
| & | gives you this | & | ...and... | ...or... | & | gives you this | & |
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the less than sign [as in mathematics] {you know... tilt it to the left to form the letter 'L'} | |||||||
| < | gives you this | < | ...and... | ...or... | < | gives you this | < |
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the greater than sign [as in mathematics] {as in 5 is greater than 4} | |||||||
| > | gives you this | > | ...and... | ...or... | > | gives you this | > |
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