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HTML Character Reference Complete tables of HTML entities used by HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0. By Stephanos Piperoglou.
Latin-1 From the W3C (XHTML 1.0 DTD, 160 and above)
The HTML Document Character Set In addition to the standard ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) character repertoire, the author has included a selection of Unicode characters. This is designed as a look-up reference for HTML authors. Note, to use Unicode characters you must include a character encoding scheme, like <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;charset=UTF-8"> and even then, some unicode characters will not show up properly in all but the newest browsers.