Special Characters

David Seaman, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia

Since SGML seeks to represent text solely in terms of the ASCII character set, any character that falls outside the ASCII domain must be represented with a special character entity tag. Each special character tag consists of a brief descriptive string, surrounded by an ampersand (&) and a semicolon (;). Note that, since the ampersand marks the beginning of each special character entity, it requires its own entity: &

ACUTE characters ISO NAME á á é é í í ó ó ú ú	GRAVE characters ISO NAME à à è è ì ì ò ò ù ù
UMLAUT characters ISO NAME ä ä ë ë ï ï ö ö ü ü	CIRCUMFLEX characters ISO NAME â â ê ê î î ô ô û û
TILDE characters ISO NAME ã ã ñ ñ CEDILLA characters ISO NAME ç ç	LIGATURES ISO NAME œ œ æ æ THORNS and ETHs ISO NAME þ þ ð ð

A Full Set of ISO Special Character Codes

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