ISO-8859-1 Charset
ISO 8859-1 is also called Latin-1 or “Western European” languages. It is a 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets.
The first 128 characters of ISO-8859-1 (codes from 0-127) correspond to ASCII character-set (Numbers, uppercase and lowercase letters and special characters).
The higher part of ISO-8859-1 (codes from 160-255) contain the characters used in Western European countries and some commonly used special characters.
Note: The entities are case sensitive.
The following table lists each of the characters specified in the Added Latin-1 entity set, along with Entity Number, Entity Name, and description.
ISO 8859-1 Symbols
| Character | Entity Number | Entity Name | Description |
|   | | no-break space = non-breaking space | |
| ¡ | ¡ | ¡ | inverted exclamation mark |
| ¢ | ¢ | ¢ | cent sign |
| £ | £ | £ | pound sign |
| ¤ | ¤ | ¤ | currency sign |
| ¥ | ¥ | ¥ | yen sign = yuan sign |
| ¦ | ¦ | ¦ | broken bar |
| § | § | § | section sign |
| ¨ | ¨ | ¨ | diaeresis = spacing diaeresis |
| © | © | © | copyright sign |
| ª | ª | ª | feminine ordinal indicator |
| « | « | « | left-pointing double angle quotation mark= left pointing guillemet |
| ¬ | ¬ | ¬ | not sign |
| | ­ | ­ | soft hyphen = discretionary hyphen |
| ® | ® | ® | registered sign = registered trade mark sign |
| ¯ | ¯ | ¯ | macron = spacing macron = overline = APL overbar |
| ° | ° | ° | degree sign |
| ± | ± | ± | plus-minus sign = plus-or-minus sign |
| ² | ² | ² | superscript two = superscript digit two = squared |
| ³ | ³ | ³ | superscript three = superscript digit three = cubed |
| ´ | ´ | ´ | acute accent = spacing acute |
| µ | µ | µ | micro sign |
| ¶ | ¶ | ¶ | pilcrow sign = paragraph sign |
| · | · | · | middle dot = Georgian comma = Greek middle dot |
| ¸ | ¸ | ¸ | cedilla = spacing cedilla |
| ¹ | ¹ | ¹ | superscript one = superscript digit one |
| º | º | º | masculine ordinal indicator |
| » | » | » | right-pointing double angle quotation mark = right pointing guillemet |
| ¼ | ¼ | ¼ | vulgar fraction one quarter = fraction one quarter |
| ½ | ½ | ½ | vulgar fraction one half = fraction one half |
| ¾ | ¾ | ¾ | vulgar fraction three quarters = fraction three quarters |
| ¿ | ¿ | ¿ | inverted question mark = turned question mark |
| × | × | × | multiplication sign |
| ÷ | ÷ | ÷ | division sign |
ISO 8859-1 Characters
| Character | Entity Number | Entity Name | Description |
| À | À | À | latin capital letter A with grave |
| Á | Á | Á | latin capital letter A with acute |
| Â | Â | Â | latin capital letter A with circumflex |
| Ã | Ã | Ã | latin capital letter A with tilde |
| Ä | Ä | Ä | latin capital letter A with diaeresis |
| Å | Å | Å | latin capital letter A with ring above |
| Æ | Æ | Æ | latin capital letter AE = latin capital ligature AE |
| Ç | Ç | Ç | latin capital letter C with cedilla |
| È | È | È | latin capital letter E with grave |
| É | É | É | latin capital letter E with acute |
| Ê | Ê | Ê | latin capital letter E with circumflex |
| Ë | Ë | Ë | latin capital letter E with diaeresis |
| Ì | Ì | Ì | latin capital letter I with grave |
| Í | Í | Í | latin capital letter I with acute |
| Î | Î | Î | latin capital letter I with circumflex |
| Ï | Ï | Ï | latin capital letter I with diaeresis |
| Ð | Ð | Ð | latin capital letter ETH |
| Ñ | Ñ | Ñ | latin capital letter N with tilde |
| Ò | Ò | Ò | latin capital letter O with grave |
| Ó | Ó | Ó | latin capital letter O with acute |
| Ô | Ô | Ô | latin capital letter O with circumflex |
| Õ | Õ | Õ | latin capital letter O with tilde |
| Ö | Ö | Ö | latin capital letter O with diaeresis |
| Ø | Ø | Ø | latin capital letter O with stroke |
| Ù | Ù | Ù | latin capital letter U with grave |
| Ú | Ú | Ú | latin capital letter U with acute |
| Û | Û | Û | latin capital letter U with circumflex |
| Ü | Ü | Ü | latin capital letter U with diaeresis |
| Ý | Ý | Ý | latin capital letter Y with acute |
| Þ | Þ | Þ | latin capital letter THORN |
| ß | ß | ß | latin small letter sharp s = ess-zed |
| à | à | à | latin small letter a with grave |
| á | á | á | latin small letter a with acute |
| â | â | â | latin small letter a with circumflex |
| ã | ã | ã | latin small letter a with tilde |
| ä | ä | ä | latin small letter a with diaeresis |
| å | å | å | latin small letter a with ring above |
| æ | æ | æ | latin small ligature ae |
| ç | ç | ç | latin small letter c with cedilla |
| è | è | è | latin small letter e with grave |
| é | é | é | latin small letter e with acute |
| ê | ê | ê | latin small letter e with circumflex |
| ë | ë | ë | latin small letter e with diaeresis |
| ì | ì | ì | latin small letter i with grave |
| í | í | í | latin small letter i with acute |
| î | î | î | latin small letter i with circumflex |
| ï | ï | ï | latin small letter i with diaeresis |
| ð | ð | ð | latin small letter eth |
| ñ | ñ | ñ | latin small letter n with tilde |
| ò | ò | ò | latin small letter o with grave |
| ó | ó | ó | latin small letter o with acute |
| ô | ô | ô | latin small letter o with circumflex |
| õ | õ | õ | latin small letter o with tilde |
| ö | ö | ö | latin small letter o with diaeresis |
| ø | ø | ø | latin small letter o with stroke |
| ù | ù | ù | latin small letter u with grave |
| ú | ú | ú | latin small letter u with acute |
| û | û | û | latin small letter u with circumflex |
| ü | ü | ü | latin small letter u with diaeresis |
| ý | ý | ý | latin small letter y with acute |
| þ | þ | þ | latin small letter thorn |
| ÿ | ÿ | ÿ | latin small letter y with diaeresis |