HTML entity

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About
An HTML entity is a combination of characters which will be displayed within an HTML browser as a single character. All HTML entities begin with "&amp;" (ampersand) and end with ";" (semicolon). Many entities have mnemonic names (such as "&amp;amp;", which displays an ampersand); any possible character can be displayed as an entity by using the format "&amp;# number ;" where number is the output character's ASCII value in decimal.

see also: Percent-encoding

Reference

 * HTML 4.0 entities
 * HTML 4.0 entities

Questions

 * Does Google resolve html entities when indexing web pages? That is, if I spelled a word (e.g. "schmerglefrotz") entirely using html entities, would someone be able to find that page using google by typing "schmerglefrotz" (after the site had been spidered, of course)? (As a test, I will spell a completely different word using HTML entities, and try Googling it later: &#70;&#82;&#69;&#76;&#71;&#75;&#76;&#79;&#84;&#90;)
 * 2007-07-15 answer: Yes, it does find it (though it took several months at least before this page got indexed).

Entities by Number
And yes, it keeps going after this: &#257;&#258;&#259;...
 * 0-8 are not translated
 * 9 is probably TAB
 * 10 is probably LF
 * 13 is probably CR
 * 14-31 are not translated
 * 32 is a standard space

Others:
 * &amp;rsquo; - &rsquo; - right single-quote
 * &amp;lsquo; - &lsquo; - left single-quote