Latin Characters

Entities Latin Characters

Latin characters include the letters used by English and many other languages, along with accented letters, ligatures, and additional characters derived from the Latin alphabet. HTML character references can be used to represent many of these characters using named, decimal, or hexadecimal references.

Most Latin characters can be entered directly into an HTML document when UTF-8 encoding is used. Character references are useful when a character is difficult to type or when using a reference makes the HTML source easier to understand.

Latin-1 Supplement Characters

The Latin-1 Supplement includes accented Latin letters and other characters commonly used by Western European languages. The following table lists frequently used Latin characters and their HTML character references.

Extended Latin Characters

Unicode contains many additional Latin characters beyond the Latin-1 Supplement. Some commonly used extended characters also have named HTML character references.

Using Latin Characters in HTML

When a webpage uses UTF-8, Latin characters can normally be entered directly into the HTML source. The same characters can also be represented using named or numeric character references.

<p>Caf&eacute;</p>
<p>Jalape&ntilde;o</p>
<p>M&uuml;nchen</p>
<p>&AElig;ther</p>