Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1) characters
       as & Amp entities  (&ampersand; )
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&#nnn;    The table below shows the effect of  numeric ampersand entities on your browser.  &AMP entities can be used to augment the ASCII character set. 

To use these characters in your own HTML files, replace the "nnn" with the appropriate number from the list below (e.g. © for the copyright sign ©). 

HTML 2.0 and later permit the use of some non-numeric special characters shown in parentheses in the column on the right. © = ©

(These are the only non-numeric character entities defined in HTML 2.0, except for &amp;,&lt;, and &gt;, which should be used to escape the characters & <> in an HTML file, and &quot; to escape a double-quote character in an attribute value.) 


Probably the most useful &amp entity is &nbsp; (&#160;) This will insert 1 pixel of space between any two characters or between an image and a character. With the Netscape Communicator editor, the command to insert this entity is simply shift spacebar. In this HTML editor, the return key inserts a <BR> command which is identical to a breaking space &#32;. Netscape Communicator does not support other &ampersand entities. To insert them, go to Edit/HTML source.

With Latin 1 there are enough characters to support phonemic writing systems such as Icelandic. By using this augmented roman character set, e.g., using accented letters to indicate long vowels, it could also be used to support a regularized English orthography without resorting to digraphs. 

References:  SAMPA     Asciibet     Map-IPA     Phoneascii

 
Cut and paste from the list below to your HTML editor:

non breaking space &nbsp can be inserted in Netscape Communicator with the space bar

© 1999 BETA   · mid-dot  ×  º °¹ ² ³
æ  ð à è ì ò ù  ñ Þ þ ø û 
$¢£¥  Yuro sign not available
å æ  Ð ð ×

 32             160         Non-breaking space &nbsp;
 33    !        161    ¡    Inverted exclamation
 34    "        162    ¢    Cent sign
 35    #        163    £    Pound sterling £
 36    $        164    ¤    General currency sign (bright)
 37    %        165    ¥    Yen sign
 38    &        166    ¦    Broken vertical bar
 39    '        167    §    Section sign
 40    (        168    ¨    Umlaut (dieresis)
 41    )        169    ©    Copyright &copy; or &#169 © 
 42    *        170    ª    Feminine ordinal
 43    +        171    «    Left angle quote, guillemotleft
 44    ,        172    ¬    Not sign
 45    -        173    ­    Soft hyphen
 46    .        174    ®    Registered trademark
 47    /        175    ¯    Macron accent
 48    0        176    °    Degree sign
 49    1        177    ±    Plus or minus
 50    2        178    ²    Superscript two
 51    3        179    ³    Superscript three
 52    4        180    ´    Acute accent
 53    5        181    µ    Micro sign (PMF yew)
 54    6        182    ¶    Paragraph sign
 55    7        183    ·    Middle dot &midot &183;
 56    8        184    ¸    Cedilla
 57    9        185    ¹    Superscript one
 58    :        186    º    Masculine ordinal
 59    ;        187    »    Right angle quote, guillemotright
 60    <        188    ¼    Fraction one-fourth  (&lt; less than)
 61    =        189    ½    Fraction one-half
 62    >        190    ¾    Fraction three-fourths  (&gt; greater than)
 63    ?        191    ¿    Inverted question mark
 64    @        192    À    Capital A, grave accent ("&Agrave;")
 65    A        193    Á    Capital A, acute accent ("&Aacute;")
 66    B        194        Capital A, circumflex accent ("&Acirc;")
 67    C        195    à   Capital A, tilde ("&Atilde;")
 68    D        196    Ä    Capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark ("&Auml;")
 69    E        197    Å    Capital A, ring ("&Aring;")
 70    F        198    Æ    Capital AE dipthong (ligature) ("&AElig;")
 71    G        199    Ç    Capital C, cedilla ("&Ccedil;")
 72    H        200    È    Capital E, grave accent ("&Egrave;")
 73    I        201    É    Capital E, acute accent ("&Eacute;")
 74    J        202    Ê    Capital E, circumflex accent ("&Ecirc;")
 75    K        203    Ë    Capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark ("&Euml;")
 76    L        204    Ì    Capital I, grave accent ("&Igrave;")
 77    M        205    Í    Capital I, acute accent ("&Iacute;")
 78    N        206    Π   Capital I, circumflex accent ("&Icirc;")
 79    O        207    Ï    Capital I, dieresis or umlaut mark ("&Iuml;")
 80    P        208    Р   Capital Eth, Icelandic ("&ETH;")
 81    Q        209    Ñ    Capital N, tilde ("&Ntilde;")
 82    R        210    Ò    Capital O, grave accent ("&Ograve;")
 83    S        211    Ó    Capital O, acute accent ("&Oacute;")
 84    T        212    Ô    Capital O, circumflex accent ("&Ocirc;")
 85    U        213    Õ    Capital O, tilde ("&Otilde;")
 86    V        214    Ö    Capital O, dieresis or umlaut mark ("&Ouml;")
 87    W        215    ×    Multiply sign ("&times;")
 88    X        216    Ø    Capital O, slash ("&Oslash;")
 89    Y        217    Ù    Capital U, grave accent ("&Ugrave;")
 90    Z        218    Ú    Capital U, acute accent ("&Uacute;")
 91    [        219    Û    Capital U, circumflex accent ("&Ucirc;")
 92    \        220    Ü    Capital U, dieresis or umlaut mark ("&Uuml;")
 93    ]        221    Ý    Capital Y, acute accent ("&Yacute;")
 94    ^        222    Þ    Capital THORN, Icelandic ("&THORN;")
 95    _        223    ß    Small sharp s, German (sz ligature) ("&szlig;")
 96    `        224    à    Small a, grave accent ("&agrave;")
 97    a        225    á    Small a, acute accent ("&aacute;")
 98    b        226    â    Small a, circumflex accent ("&acirc;")
 99    c        227    ã    Small a, tilde ("&atilde;")
100    d        228    ä    Small a, dieresis or umlaut mark ("&auml;")
101    e        229    å    Small a, ring ("&aring;")/ah?/as in father
102    f        230    æ    Small ae dipthong (ligature) ("&aelig;")
103    g        231    ç    Small c, cedilla ("&ccedil;")
104    h        232    è    Small e, grave accent ("&egrave;")
105    i        233    é    Small e, acute accent ("&eacute;")
106    j        234    ê    Small e, circumflex accent ("&ecirc;")
107    k        235    ë    Small e, dieresis or umlaut mark ("&euml;")
108    l        236    ì    Small i, grave accent ("&igrave;")
109    m        237    í    Small i, acute accent ("&iacute;")
110    n        238    î    Small i, circumflex accent ("&icirc;")
111    o        239    ï    Small i, dieresis or umlaut mark ("&iuml;")
112    p        240    ð    Small eth, Icelandic ("&eth;")as in "the"
113    q        241    ñ    Small n, tilde ("&ntilde;")
114    r        242    ò    Small o, grave accent ("&ograve;")
115    s        243    ó    Small o, acute accent ("&oacute;")/long o/
116    t        244    ô    Small o, circumflex accent ("&ocirc;")
117    u        245    õ    Small o, tilde ("&otilde;")
118    v        246    ö    Small o, dieresis or umlaut mark ("&ouml;")
119    w        247    ÷    Division sign
120    x        248    ø    Small o, slash ("&oslash;")
121    y        249    ù    Small u, grave accent ("&ugrave;")
122    z        250    ú    Small u, acute accent ("&uacute;")
123    {        251    û    Small u, circumflex accent ("&ucirc;")
124    |        252    ü    Small u, dieresis or umlaut mark ("&uuml;")
125    }        253    ý    Small y, acute accent ("&yacute;")
126    ~        254    þ    Small thorn, Icelandic ("&thorn;")
                255    ÿ    Small y, dieresis or umlaut mark ("&yuml;")

What are the sounds associated with some of the augmented characters such as the  O-slash  and  A-ring?

Icelandic

Special characters for eth ð and thorn þ are supported. Long vowels are often referenced with an acute accent: ee/í, owe/ó, yu /ú. The mapping is a little more divergent relative to English for the unmarked characters.
 
 

Note: If the right column looks the same as the left column above, you're losing the eighth bit somewhere. If the characters in the right column don't match their descriptions, then your browser is translating incorrectly between ISO 8859-1 Latin 1 and your platform's native character set. 

(See a .gif image of the character glyphs that should be displayed in 8859-1 Latin 1.)
Note that positions 127-159 are not displayable characters in ISO 8859-1 Latin 1, and are not 
used in HTML 2.0.

The following chart only tests the ISO 8859-1 compliance of your browser's non-proportional font; to test the proportional font see the Latin 1 chart with HTML Tables


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