ISO Latin 1 Character Entity Set

[[ This table is based upon sections 9.7, 13 and 14 in Tim Berners-Lee and Daniel W. Connolly HTML 2.0 Specification, and chapter 24 in Dave Reggett, Arnaud Le Hors and Ian Jacobs HTML 4.0 Specification. It gives the code positions and SGML entity names (as defined in annex D of ISO 8879) for the non-ASCII characters in the ISO Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1) character set referenced by the HTML DTD. The entity names should be supported by all HTML compliant browsers. The numeric character entity references (given in the "Position" column) are also valid designations, but seem to be more prone to non-compliant (i.e. buggy) browser implementation. ]]

This list details the code positions and the characters of the default HTML document character set. The default HTML coded character set is based on ISO 8859-1.

The HTML DTD references the "Added Latin 1" entity set, which only supplies named entities for a subset of the non-ASCII characters in ISO 8859-1, namely the accented characters. The following entities should be supported so that all ISO 8859-1 characters may only be referenced symbolically. The names for these entities are taken from the annexes of ISO 8879 (SGML):

"ISO 8879-1986//ENTITIES Added Latin 1//EN"
"ISO 8879-1986//ENTITIES Numeric and Special Graphic//EN"
"ISO 8879-1986//ENTITIES Diacritical Marks//EN"