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Numeric and Special Graphic Character Entities (%isonum;)

Name

%isonum; -- Numeric and Special Graphic Character Entities

Synopsis

The %isonum; parameter entity includes the ISO character entities with the public identifier:

  ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Numeric and Special Graphic//EN

Description

The following character entities are defined in this entity set:

Entity	Unicode #	Glyph	ISO Description
half	00BD		Vulgar fraction one half
frac12	00BD		Vulgar fraction one half
frac14	00BC		Vulgar fraction one quarter
frac34	00BE		Vulgar fraction three quarters
frac18	215B		Vulgar fraction one eighth
frac38	215C		Vulgar fraction three eighths
frac58	215D		Vulgar fraction five eighths
frac78	215E		Vulgar fraction seven eighths
sup1	00B9		Superscript one
sup2	00B2		Superscript two
sup3	00B3		Superscript three
plus	002B		Plus sign
plusmn	00B1		Plus-minus sign
lt	003C		Less-than sign
equals	003D		Equals sign
gt	003E		Greater-than sign
divide	00F7		Division sign
times	00D7		Multiplication sign
curren	00A4		Currency sign
pound	00A3		Pound sign
dollar	0024		Dollar sign
cent	00A2		Cent sign
yen	00A5		Yen sign
num	0023		Number sign
percnt	0025		Percent sign
amp	0026		Ampersand
ast	002A		Asterisk
commat	0040		Commercial at
lsqb	005B		Left square bracket
bsol	005C		Reverse solidus
rsqb	005D		Right square bracket
lcub	007B		Left curly bracket
horbar	2015		Horizontal bar
verbar	007C		Vertical line
rcub	007D		Right curly bracket
micro	00B5		Micro sign
ohm	2126		Ohm sign
deg	00B0		Degree sign
ordm	00BA		Masculine ordinal indicator
ordf	00AA		Feminine ordinal indicator
sect	00A7		Section sign
para	00B6		Pilcrow sign
middot	00B7		Middle dot
larr	2190		Leftwards arrow
rarr	2192		Rightwards arrow
uarr	2191		Upwards arrow
darr	2193		Downwards arrow
copy	00A9		Copyright sign
reg	00AE		Registered sign
trade	2122		Trade mark sign
brvbar	00A6		Broken bar
not	00AC		Not sign
sung			Eighth note
excl	0021		Exclamation mark
iexcl	00A1		Inverted exclamation mark
quot	0022		Quotation mark
apos	0027		Apostrophe
lpar	0028		Left parenthesis
rpar	0029		Right parenthesis
comma	002C		Comma
lowbar	005F		Low line
hyphen	002D		Hyphen
period	002E		Period
sol	002F		Solidus
colon	003A		Colon
semi	003B		Semicolon
quest	003F		Question mark
iquest	00BF		Inverted question mark
laquo	00AB		Left-pointing double angle quotation mark
raquo	00BB		Right-pointing double angle quotation mark
lsquo	2018		Left single quotation mark
rsquo	2019		Right single quotation mark
ldquo	201C		Left double quotation mark
rdquo	201D		Right double quotation mark
nbsp	00A0		No-break space
shy	00AD		Soft hyphen

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