The conversion of special characters outside the range of normal seven-bit ASCII characters to a standard form. Encoding is used to preserve the meaning of the special characters, the information integrity and universal browser display.
For example, the character "<" cannot be used as it is, as it is also used in HTML syntax to create and close tags. So the character "<"is converted to the corresponding HTML entity “<”.HTML entity names are case sensitive.
There are so many character-encoding formats available, UTF-8 is most commonly used to encode. The type of encoding used is passed in the HTTP header so that it can be parsed. Other character encoding types are ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-1
| Character | Entity name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| " | " | quotation mark |
| ' | ' | apostrophe |
| & | & | ampersand |
| < | < | less-than |
| > | > | greater-than |
| non-breaking space | ||
| ¡ | ¡ | inverted exclamation mark |
| ¢ | ¢ | cent |
| £ | £ | pound |
| ¤ | ¤ | currency |
| ¥ | ¥ | yen |
| ¦ | ¦ | broken vertical bar |
| § | § | section |
| ¨ | ¨ | spacing diaeresis |
| © | © | copyright |
| ª | ª | feminine ordinal indicator |
| « | « | angle quotation mark (left) |
| ¬ | ¬ | negation |
| ¬ | | soft hyphen |
| ® | ® | registered trademark |
| ¯ | ¯ | spacing macron |
| ° | ° | degree |
| ± | ± | plus-or-minus |
| ² | ² | superscript 2 |
| ³ | ³ | superscript 3 |
| ´ | ´ | spacing acute |
| µ | µ | micro |
| ¶ | ¶ | paragraph |
| • | · | middle dot |
| ¸ | ¸ | spacing cedilla |
| ¹ | ¹ | superscript 1 |
| º | º | masculine ordinal indicator |
| » | » | angle quotation mark (right) |
| ¼ | ¼ | fraction 1/4 |
| ½ | ½ | fraction 1/2 |
| ¾ | ¾ | fraction 3/4 |
| ¿ | ¿ | inverted question mark |
| × | × | multiplication |
| ÷ | ÷ | division |
| À | À | capital a, grave accent |
| Á | Á | capital a, acute accent |
| Â | Â | capital a, circumflex accent |
| Ã | Ã | capital a, tilde |
| Ä | Ä | capital a, umlaut mark |
| Å | Å | capital a, ring |
| Æ | Æ | capital ae |
| Ç | Ç | capital c, cedilla |
| È | È | capital e, grave accent |
| É | É | capital e, acute accent |
| Ê | Ê | capital e, circumflex accent |
| Ë | Ë | capital e, umlaut mark |
| Ì | Ì | capital i, grave accent |
| Í | Í | capital i, acute accent |
| Î | Î | capital i, circumflex accent |
| Ï | Ï | capital i, umlaut mark |
| Ð | Ð | capital eth, Icelandic |
| Ñ | Ñ | capital n, tilde |
| Ò | Ò | capital o, grave accent |
| Ó | Ó | capital o, acute accent |
| Ô | Ô | capital o, circumflex accent |
| Õ | Õ | capital o, tilde |
| Ö | Ö | capital o, umlaut mark |
| Ø | Ø | capital o, slash |
| Ù | Ù | capital u, grave accent |
| Ú | Ú | capital u, acute accent |
| Û | Û | capital u, circumflex accent |
| Ü | Ü | capital u, umlaut mark |
| Ý | Ý | capital y, acute accent |
| Þ | Þ | capital THORN, Icelandic |
| ß | ß | small sharp s, German |
| à | à | small a, grave accent |
| á | á | small a, acute accent |
| â | â | small a, circumflex accent |
| ã | ã | small a, tilde |
| ä | ä | small a, umlaut mark |
| å | å | small a, ring |
| æ | æ | small ae |
| ç | ç | small c, cedilla |
| è | è | small e, grave accent |
| é | é | small e, acute accent |
| ê | ê | small e, circumflex accent |
| ë | ë | small e, umlaut mark |
| ì | ì | small i, grave accent |
| í | í | small i, acute accent |
| î | î | small i, circumflex accent |
| ï | ï | small i, umlaut mark |
| ð | ð | small eth, Icelandic |
| ñ | ñ | small n, tilde |
| ò | ò | small o, grave accent |
| ó | ó | small o, acute accent |
| ô | ô | small o, circumflex accent |
| õ | õ | small o, tilde |
| ö | ö | small o, umlaut mark |
| ø | ø | small o, slash |
| ù | ù | small u, grave accent |
| ú | ú | small u, acute accent |
| û | û | small u, circumflex accent |
| ü | ü | small u, umlaut mark |
| ý | ý | small y, acute accent |
| þ | þ | small thorn, Icelandic |
| ÿ | ÿ | small y, umlaut mark |
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