HTML Character Reference
This character reference is meant to help Web authors manage their characters and character references. If the terms UCS, ISO Latin 1, character encoding and named character reference mean nothing to you, first please be calm, as they're only barely English. For a primer on character sets and encodings, check out HTML With Style Tutorial 17 which will give you a gentle introduction.
The characters listed here are split into three groups: The first group lists all the first 256 characters in UCS (the ISO Latin 1 characters). The second and third tables list the rest of the named enties defined in HTML 4.0 and XHTML 1.0, with the second table listing symbols, mathematical symbols and Greek letters and the third table listing markup-significant and internationalization characters.