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In Wikipedia the accepted characters are only those of the ASCII code (American Standard Code for Information Interchange). This is a code based on the latin alphabet that includes the following characters:
! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
@ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ 

Characters not belonging to this code are regarded as special characters and SHOULD NOT be inserted into the wikitext using key combinations. Instead you must insert the corresponding HTML code for each special character. The assistant has the codes for the most used special characters. To insert one of them you should place the cursor in the insertion point and select the desired characters in the drop-down list of characters.


Many characters not on the standard computer keyboard will be useful—even necessary—for projects in a non-Latin-alphabet language. The panel of tools of the Edit window offers the user the possibility to insert many of the most common special characters. Here is a list of the special characters you can insert using the drop-down menu at the panel of tools:

Symbol
String
Result
Cent
&cent;
¢
Pound
&pound;
£
Copyright
&copy;
©
Registered sign
&reg;
®
Degree symbol
&deg;
°
Plus-minus sign
&plusmn;
±
Superscript two
&sup2;
²
Superscript three
&sup3;
³
Superscript one
&sup1;
¹
Micro
&micro;
µ
One quarter
&frac14;
¼
One half
&frac12;
½
Three quarters
&frac34;
¾
Inverted Exclamation Mark
&iexcl;
¡
Inverted Question Mark
&iquest;
¿
Euro (currency)
&euro;
€
Trade mark
&trade;
™
Multiplication sign
&times;
×
Division sign
&divide;
÷
Square root
&radic;
√
Unequal sign
&ne;
≠
Yen (currency)
&yen;
¥
Broken bar
&brvbar;
¦
Section sign
&sect;
§
Umlaut
&uml;
¨
Feminine Ordinal Indicator
&ordf;
ª
Left-pointing double angle quotation mark
&laquo;
«
Not sign
&not;
¬
Acute accent
&acute;
´
Capital letter A with grave
&Agrave;
À
Capital letter A with acute
&Aacute;
Á
Middle dot
&middot;
·
Pilcrow
&para;
Cedilla
&cedil;
¸
Masculine ordinal indicator
&ordm;
º
Macron
&macr;
¯
Left-pointing double angle quotation mark
&laquo;
«
Latin Capital letter A with circumflex
&Acirc;
Â
Latin Capital letter A with diaeresis
&Auml;
Ä
Latin Capital letter Æ
&AElig;
Æ
Latin Capital letter C with cedilla
&Ccedil;
Ç
Latin Capital letter E with grave
&Egrave;
È
Latin Capital letter E with acute
&Eacute;
É
Latin Capital letter E with circumflex
&Ecirc;
Ê
Latin Capital letter E with diaeresis
&Euml;
Ë
Latin Capital letter I with grave
&Igrave;
Ì
Latin Capital letter I with acute
&Iacute;
Í
Latin Capital letter I with circumflex
&Icirc;
Î
Latin Capital letter I with diaeresis
&Iuml;
Ï
Latin Capital letter N with tilde
&Ntilde;
Ñ
Latin Capital letter O with grave
&Ograve;
Ò
Latin Capital letter O with acute
&Oacute;
Ó
Latin Capital letter O with circumflex
&Ocirc;
Ô
Latin Capital letter O with diaeresis
&Ouml;
Ö
Latin Capital letter U with grave
&Ugrave;
Ù
Latin Capital letter U with acute
&Uacute;
Ú
Latin Capital Letter U with circumflex
&Ucirc;
Û
Latin Capital Letter Y with acute
&Yacute;
Ý
Latin Small Letter sharp S
&szlig;
ß
Latin Small Letter A with grave
&agrave;
à
Latin Small Letter A with acute
&aacute;
á
Latin Small Letter A with diaeresis
&auml;
ä
Latin Small Letter Æ
&aelig;
æ
Latin Small Letter C with cedilla
&ccedil;
ç
Latin Small Letter E with grave
&egrave;
è
Latin Small Letter E with acute
&eacute;
é
Latin Small Letter E with circumflex
&ecirc;
ê
Latin Small Letter E with diaeresis
&euml;
ë
Latin Small Letter I with grave
&igrave;
ì
Latin Small Letter I with acute
&iacute;
í
Latin Small Letter I with circumflex
&icirc;
î
Latin Small Letter I with diaeresis
&iuml;
ï
Latin Small Letter N with tilde
&ntilde;
ñ
Latin Small Letter O with grave
&ograve;
ò
Latin Small Letter O with acute
&oacute;
ó
Latin Small Letter O with circumflex
&ocirc;
ô
Latin Small Letter U with grave
&ugrave;
ù
Latin Small Letter U with acute
&uacute;
ú
Latin Small Letter U with circumflex
&ucirc;
û
Latin Small Letter Y with acute
&yacute;
ý
Latin Small Letter Y with diaeresis
&yuml;
ÿ
Latin Capital Letter U with breve
 
Ŭ
Latin Small Letter U with breve
 
ŭ
Latin Capital Ligature OE
&Oelig;
Œ
Latin Small Ligature OE
&oelig;
œ
Latin Capital Letter S with caron
&Scaron;
Š
Latin Small Letter S with caron
&scaron;
š
Latin Capital Letter Y with diaeresis
&Yuml;
Ÿ
Right-pointing double angle quotation mark
&raquo;
»
Left double quotations
&ldquo;
“
Right double quotations
&rdquo;
”
Left simple quotations
&lsquo;
‘
Right simple quotations
&rsquo;
’
Lesser or equal
&le;
≤
Greater or equal
&ge;
≥
Therefore
&there4;
∴
Right arrow
&rarr;
→
Down arrow
&darr;
↓
Up arrow
&uarr;
↑
Left arrow
&larr;
←
Double side arrow
&harr;
↔
Infinite
&infin;
∞
Pipe
&#124;
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