Inserting Special Characters
Special characters are characters that are not included on a standard English keyboard. Examples include letters with accent marks over them, as in résumé, or an ownership symbol such as © or ™. In HTML, these special characters are referred to as entities, and they are created by using codes beginning with an ampersand (&), followed by an entity name or an entity number, and ending with a semicolon. The entity names and entity numbers both represent the same thing; you can use either one.
In addition to the non-keyboard symbols, certain other symbols must be created as entities in HTML because they have a specific meaning in HTML. The most common are the ampersand (&), the greater than sign (>), and the less than sign ...
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