ISO 8859-1 Character Entity References

The following tables give all characters which are available in the ISO Latin 1 character set. In each table, you will see four columns:

1. Char. This is the actual character (displayed as small GIF image).
2. Code. This is the decimal code number for the character.
3. Name. This is the entity name for the character.
4. Description. A short description on the character.

In all cases, you may use the decimal code number to represent the character, or the entity name if that's available. A number is used like this: © to represent the 169th character. Since this character also has a name, you can also use © to represent it.

• ISO 8859-1 as table with small GIF images.
• ISO 8859-1 as set of six GIF images.
• ISO 8859-1 as one large GIF image (1143 x 1530 pixels, 70K).

Notes

1. utf-8 explicitly does not define displayable characters for positions 0-31 and 127-159, and the HTML standard does not allow those to be used for displayable characters. The only characters in this range that are used are 9, 10 and 13, which are tab, newline and carriage return respectively. If you attempt to display these invalid characters on your own system, you may find some characters displayed there, but please do not assume that other users will see the same thing (or even anything at all) on their systems.

2. Although the specs require that all browsers support this character set, not all actually do. In particular, Macintosh browsers display the following 15 characters incorrectly:

• the broken vertical bar (¦), ''
• shy (­) ''
• superscript 1 (¹), ''
• superscript 2 (²) ''
• superscript 3 (³), ''
• half (½), ''
• quarter (¼), ''
• three quarters (¾), ''
• uppercase (Ð) ''
• the multiplication sign (×). ''
• uppercase (Ý) ''
• uppercase (Þ) ''
• lowercase eth (ð), ''
• lowercase y acute (ý) ''
• lowercase thorn (þ), ''

Macintosh users might want to install CourierWeb, monospaced font that can display all entities correctly. Alan Flavell maintains a more extensive dicussion of this topic.

3. In most cases, you will not need to use the " entity for the double quote ("). It might come in handy if you need it inside a quoted attribute value, for example as in ALT="My "new" site".