International UTF-8 Special Characters

Here are the most common HTML 4.0 special characters from the UTF-8 Character Set. Specifically, we've listed the most important special mathematical, Greek and internationalization characters for UTF-8 character set.

Common International HTML character codes for International characters in the UTF-8 Character Set

Browser Setup

In order to be specify the UTF-8 Character set, you'll probably want to ensure that the following line appears in the head section of every web page.

<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html" charset="UTF-8">

A full Character Entity Reference for HTML 4.0 is available at: http://www.w3.org/TR/PR-html40/sgml/entities.html

The Unicode organization maintains a table of all the 1.1 million codes at http://www.unicode.org/charts/

Internationalization Special Characters

Name	Symb	Decimal	Hex Code	Description	ISO
"	"	"	U+0022	quotation mark = APL quote	ISOnum
&	&	&	U+0026	ampersand	ISOnum
<	<	<	U+003C	less-than sign	ISOnum
>	>	>	U+003E	greater-than sign	ISOnum
&OElig;	Œ	Œ	U+0152	Latin capital ligature OE	ISOlat2
&oelig;	œ	œ	U+0153	Latin small ligature oe	ISOlat2
&Scaron;	Š	Š	U+0160	Latin capital letter S with caron	ISOlat2
&scaron;	š	š	U+0161	Latin small letter s with caron	ISOlat2
&Yuml;	Ÿ	Ÿ	U+0178	Latin capital letter Y with diaeresis	ISOlat2
&circ;	ˆ	ˆ	U+02C6	modifier letter circumflex accent	ISOpub
&tilde;	˜	˜	U+02DC	small tilde	ISOdia
&ensp;			U+2002	en space	ISOpub
&emsp;			U+2003	em space	ISOpub
			U+2009	thin space	ISOpub
&zwnj;	‌	‌	U+200C	zero width non-joiner	New RFC 2070
&zwj;	‍	‍	U+200D	zero width joiner	New RFC 2070
&lrm;	‎	‎	U+200E	left-to-right mark	New RFC 2070
&rlm;	‏	‏	U+200F	right-to-left mark	New RFC 2070
–	–	–	U+2013	en dash	ISOpub
—	—	—	U+2014	em dash	ISOpub
‘	‘	‘	U+2018	left single quotation mark	ISOnum
’	’	’	U+2019	right single quotation mark	ISOnum
&sbquo;	‚	‚	U+201A	single low-9 quotation mark	New
“	“	“	U+201C	left double quotation mark	ISOnum
”	”	”	U+201D	right double quotation mark	ISOnum
&bdquo;	„	„	U+201E	double low-9 quotation mark	New
&dagger;	†	†	U+2020	dagger	ISOpub
&Dagger;	‡	‡	U+2021	double dagger	ISOpub
&permil;	‰	‰	U+2030	per mille sign	ISOtech
&lsaquo;	‹	‹	U+2039	single left-pointing angle quotation mark	ISO proposed
&rsaquo;	›	›	U+203A	single right-pointing angle quotation mark	ISO proposed
€	€	€	U+20AC	euro sign	New

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