Character Entities - HTML and CSS: The Complete Reference - page 740

Intended
Rendering Description Named Entity Numbered Entity Unicode Entity

ô ô ô ô Lowercase “o” with circumflex

accent

õ õ õ õ Lowercase “o” with tilde

ö ö ö ö Lowercase “o” with umlaut

÷ ÷ ÷ ÷ Division symbol

ø ø ø ø Lowercase “o” with slash

ù ù ù ù Lowercase “u” with grave

accent

ú ú ú ú Lowercase “u” with acute

accent

û û û û Lowercase “u” with circumflex

ü ü ü ü Lowercase “u” with umlaut

ý ý ý ý Lowercase “y” with acute

accent

þ þ þ þ Lowercase “thorn”

ÿ ÿ ÿ ÿ Lowercase “y” with umlaut

T ABLE A-2 Traditional HTML Character Entities (continued)

HTML 4.x and XHTML 1.x Character Entities
The HTML 4.0 specification introduced a wide array of new character entities, including
Latin characters, the Greek alphabet, special spacing characters, arrows, technical symbols,
and various shapes. XHTML supports the same entities. Some of these entities are not
supported by older browsers such as Netscape 4. x. Most modern browsers should support
all these characters. However, up until Internet Explorer 8 some of these extended entities
were not supported in the browser under the default font. As an example, see this capture
of the difference between Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 when rendering a few
arrow entities.

Internet Explorer 7 Internet Explorer 8