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  2. List of XML and HTML character entity references - Wikipedia

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    This article lists the character entity references that are valid in HTML and XML documents. A character entity reference refers to the content of a named entity. An entity declaration is created in XML, SGML and HTML documents (before HTML5) by using the <!ENTITY name "value"> syntax in a Document type definition (DTD).

  3. Numeric character reference - Wikipedia

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    There is another kind of character reference called a character entity reference, which allows a character to be referred to by a name instead of a number. (Naming a character creates a character entity.) HTML defines some character entities, but not many; all other characters can only be included by direct encoding or using NCRs.

  4. Character encodings in HTML - Wikipedia

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    Codes from 160 to 255 can all be created using character entity names. Only a few higher-numbered codes can be created using entity names, but all can be created by decimal number character reference. Character entity references can also have the format &name; where name is a case-sensitive alphanumeric string.

  5. Unicode and HTML - Wikipedia

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    Web pages authored using HyperText Markup Language may contain multilingual text represented with the Unicode universal character set.Key to the relationship between Unicode and HTML is the relationship between the "document character set", which defines the set of characters that may be present in an HTML document and assigns numbers to them, and the "external character encoding", or "charset ...

  6. Help:Wikitext - Wikipedia

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    Special characters can often be displayed using numeric character references or character entity references. See Character encodings in HTML for more information. For example, &Agrave; and &#xC0; both render À (A-grave). Percent-encoding can't be used, as it works only in URLs.

  7. Document type definition - Wikipedia

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    The "%" character for introducing parameter entity references in the DTD loses its special role outside the DTD and it becomes a literal character. However, the references to predefined character entities are substituted wherever they occur, without needing a validating parser (they are only introduced by the "&" character).

  8. Help:Special characters - Wikipedia

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    special characters that are not available in the limited character set are stored in the form of a multi-character code; there are usually two or three equivalent representations, e.g. for the character € the named character reference &euro; and the decimal character reference &#8364; and the hexadecimal character reference &#x20AC;. The edit ...

  9. Talk : List of XML and HTML character entity references

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    Since there is one defining document for all entity names it should be referenced as the authoritative document for all entity names. Other references for entity names should be shown for historical reasons since some entity names have been associated with different characters over time (examples are 'lang' and 'rang' from U+2329 and U+232A to ...