To insert special characters into your document, use the icons in the Objects panel's Characters category, as shown in Figure B-1, or the Insert Figure B-1. Objects panel's Character category and the Insert Other Category dialog box![]() Other special characters and foreign characters, such as umlauts and accents, are inserted using the Insert Other Character dialog box (shown in Figure B-1). Open the Insert Other Character dialog box using the Other Characters icon in the Objects panel or Insert If the built-in characters entities are insufficient, you can enter so-called HTML character entities in the Insert field of the Insert Other Character dialog box, as seen in Figure B-1 (or you can hand-edit the HTML code). The Entity column of Table B-1 shows three-digit HTML character entity codes (of the form &# nnn ; ) for commonly needed characters. For example, > represents the greater-than sign (>). Note the leading &# characters and the terminating ; character. Also note the zero used to pad numbers under 100 to three digits. If a more convenient name , such as > , exists for the character entity, it is shown in the Named Entity column. Notice that named entities start with & and end with ; but do not include a # symbol. You don't always need to use an HTML character entity code to display a character, even though a code exists. Common characters, such as letters , numbers, !, and %, are displayed properly when entered directly into the Design pane of the Document window. Conversely, not all character entity codes are supported in all browsers. Dreamweaver displays unrecognized characters as a square box. Browsers typically display unrecognized characters literally. For example, Ž is displayed as a greater-than-or-equal-to sign in some browsers, but many browsers display it as "Ž". The entities shown in Table B-1 work in the latest version of the major browsers (although the character displayed by the browser may depend on the font and language coding in use). Table B-1 groups characters according to their similarity. Tables of HTML character entity sorted by the entity number are available widely, including in Webmaster in a Nutshell , HTML/XHTML: The Definitive Guide , and XML in a Nutshell . However, many special characters are difficult to reproduce accurately in print, so you may notice errors in printed versions. A complete table of HTML character entities, both for reference and for testing with different browsers, is available at http://www.dwian.com/. An extended discussion of HTML character entities is available at http://www.bbsinc.com/iso8859.html. Table B-1. Commonly needed HTML character entities
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