There are special characters, such as accents (á) and non-English characters (æ), that are not directly available on your keyboard. These entities, which are part of the ISO Latin-1 character set, can be displayed in your HTML documents with a simple technique.

&#number;

Number is replaced by a unique 3-digit numeral which will display the proper character in the browser window.

Here are several useful entities:

For more special characters click here.