Numeric entity

A numeric entity is a method of reproducing characters inside an HTML document. Numeric entities are similar to character entities, except numeric entities use numbers instead of abbreviations to represent characters.

URLs:

Special Characters in HTML

A page from an online HTML document about character entities.

HTML Character Entities

Dealing with Macintosh's unsupported HTML character entities.

Special Characters

How to hardcode special characters. (Note: using entities is the preferred method of special character reproduction.)

W3E References:

ISOLATIN.txt

A list of the ISO Latin numeric and character entities.

Creating HTML documents

When writing HTML documents, character entities must be used for many symbols and characters in order to display them in a Web page.