(WHS Archives) EAD -- Appendix B. Entity Codes
HTML entity codes used by WHS for EAD finding aids
Appendix B. Entity Codes
The following have been used by WHS
| & | ampersand | & |
| * | asterisk | * |
| : | colon | : |
| … | ellipsis | ... |
| “ | left quote mark | “ |
| ” | right quote mark | ” |
| " | straight quote marks " [no longer used by WHS] | " |
| # | number sign | # |
| [ | opening bracket | [ |
| ] | closing bracket | ] |
| ½ | ½ [no longer using] | ½ |
| à | a with a grave accent | à |
| á | a with an acute accent | á |
| ç | c with a cedilla | ç |
| è | e with a grave accent | è |
| é | e with an acute accent | é |
| í | i with an acute accent | í |
| ó | o with an acute accent | ó |
| ñ | n with a tilde | ñ |
| ó | o with an acute accent | ó |
| ö | o with diaresis | ö |
| ß | ett sett [small letter sharp s] | ß |
| § | section sign | § |
For additional entity codes see:
http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm
http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm
or
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/index.htm
- Most of the entity codes are under the "Latin-Extended A" section but a few may be found under "Latin-1 Supplement" and "Latin-Extended B" or further down the list in "General Punctuation".
- If the list indicates "control" do not use, keep looking.
- Click on link for entity; this will take you to a page with an image of the symbol and a list of encodings.
- The code you want is "HTML Entity (decimal)"; should start with an ampersand and number symbol [&#] and end with a semi colon [;].