Guidelines for SGML Text Mark-up at the Electronic Text Center

David Seaman, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia

Appendix I: Special Characters

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: &

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