Character Entities
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Links
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- `Character entity references in HTML 4`_
- `Character Entity References`_
- `This is a quick list of the most popular character entity references.`_

Description
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Character Entities References are the way you put special letters, numbers and
symbols on the web page.

A character entity reference consists of an ampersand (``&``), followed by a
hash sign (``#``), the number of the character entity, and finishing with a
semi-colon (``;``).  Alternately, for some characters you can put ampersand,
the name of the character (but no ``#`` sign), followed by a semi-colon.

Example
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To produce the copyright symbol::

  ©

or (because the copyright symbol has a name)::

  ©

Reference
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==================  ==============  ===============
Ampersand           ``&``
Cent                ``¢``      ``¢``
Colon                               ``:``
Copyright           ``©``      ``©``
Non-breaking space  `` ``      `` ``
Pound               ``£``
Quote               ``"``
Registered          ``®``
==================  ==============  ===============


.. _`Character entity references in HTML 4`: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html
.. _`Character Entity References`: http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/characterentities.html
.. _`This is a quick list of the most popular character entity references.`: http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/characterentities_famsupp_68.html