ISO-8859-1 Character Set(XSLT Characters)

I got tired of looking up the special characters for HTML and more importantly XSLT, so I decided to put them here for easy reference.

In HTML, you can use use specific code positions to display special characters. For example   is equivalent to placing a space in your text, in other words, a non-breaking space; and © is the equivalent of placing a copyright sign on the page, i.e., ©

However, in XSLT you are not allowed to use these types of characters, you need to use the ISO-8859-1 character set. The biggest difference being, these characters have a hash mark just after the & which makes the XSLT processor happy. So, instead of inserting   as a non breaking space, you'd insert   and instead of © you'd use ©

Note: these characters are not limited in use to XSLT pages, they are just as acceptable in an HTML file as demonstrated in the "Visual" column below.

ISO-8859-1 Character Set

Visual Reference Value   � -  Unused   Horizontal tab   Line feed    -  Unused   Carriage Return    -  Unused   Space ! ! Exclamation mark " " Quotation mark # # Number sign $ $ Dollar sign % % Percent sign & & Ampersand ' ' Apostrophe ( ( Left parenthesis ) ) Right parenthesis * * Asterisk + + Plus sign , , Comma - - Hyphen . . Period (fullstop) / / Solidus (slash) 0 - 9 0 - 9 Digits 0-9 : : Colon ; ; Semi-colon < < Less than = = Equals sign > > Greater than ? ? Question mark @ @ Commercial at A - Z A - Z Letters A-Z [ [ Left square bracket / \ Reverse solidus (backslash) ] ] Right square bracket ^ ^ Caret _ _ Horizontal bar (underscore) ` ` Acute accent a - z a - z Letters a-z { { Left curly brace | | Vertical bar } } Right curly brace ~ ~ Tilde  - Ÿ  - Ÿ Unused     Non-breaking Space ¡ ¡ Inverted exclamation ¢ ¢ Cent sign £ £ Pound sterling ¤ ¤ General currency sign ¥ ¥ Yen sign ¦ ¦ Broken vertical bar § § Section sign ¨ ¨ Umlaut (dieresis) © © Copyright ª ª Feminine ordinal « « Left angle quote, guillemotleft ¬ ¬ Not sign ­ ­ Soft hyphen ® ® Registered trademark ¯ ¯ Macron accent ° ° Degree sign ± ± Plus or minus ² ² Superscript two ³ ³ Superscript three ´ ´ Acute accent µ µ Micro sign ¶ ¶ Paragraph sign · · Middle dot ¸ ¸ Cedilla ¹ ¹ Superscript one º º Masculine ordinal » » Right angle quote, guillemotright ¼ ¼ Fraction one-fourth ½ ½ Fraction one-half ¾ ¾ Fraction three-fourths ¿ ¿ Inverted question mark À À Capital A, grave accent Á Á Capital A, acute accent   Capital A, circumflex accent à à Capital A, tilde Ä Ä Capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark Å Å Capital A, ring Æ Æ Capital AE dipthong (ligature) Ç Ç Capital C, cedilla È È Capital E, grave accent É É Capital E, acute accent Ê Ê Capital E, circumflex accent Ë Ë Capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark Ì Ì Capital I, grave accent Í Í Capital I, acute accent Î Î Capital I, circumflex accent Ï Ï Capital I, dieresis or umlaut mark Ð Ð Capital Eth, Icelandic Ñ Ñ Capital N, tilde Ò Ò Capital O, grave accent Ó Ó Capital O, acute accent Ô Ô Capital O, circumflex accent Õ Õ Capital O, tilde Ö Ö Capital O, dieresis or umlaut mark × × Multiply sign Ø Ø Capital O, slash Ù Ù Capital U, grave accent Ú Ú Capital U, acute accent Û Û Capital U, circumflex accent Ü Ü Capital U, dieresis or umlaut mark Ý Ý Capital Y, acute accent Þ Þ Capital THORN, Icelandic ß ß Small sharp s, German (sz ligature) à à Small a, grave accent á á Small a, acute accent â â Small a, circumflex accent ã ã Small a, tilde ä ä Small a, dieresis or umlaut mark å å Small a, ring æ æ Small ae dipthong (ligature) ç ç Small c, cedilla è è Small e, grave accent é é Small e, acute accent ê ê Small e, circumflex accent ë ë Small e, dieresis or umlaut mark ì ì Small i, grave accent í í Small i, acute accent î î Small i, circumflex accent ï ï Small i, dieresis or umlaut mark ð ð Small eth, Icelandic ñ ñ Small n, tilde ò ò Small o, grave accent ó ó Small o, acute accent ô ô Small o, circumflex accent õ õ Small o, tilde ö ö Small o, dieresis or umlaut mark ÷ ÷ Division sign ø ø Small o, slash ù ù Small u, grave accent ú ú Small u, acute accent û û Small u, circumflex accent ü ü Small u, dieresis or umlaut mark ý ý Small y, acute accent þ þ Small thorn, Icelandic ÿ ÿ Small y, dieresis or umlaut mark