Character CodesLatin 1 Characters; This chart shows the effects of numeric ampersand entities on your browser. To use these characters in your own HTML files, put the appropriate number into __; e.g. "£" for the British pound (currency) sign), or, for the 8-bit alphabetic characters, use the alternative standard HTML 2.0 entity in parentheses on the right. (These are the only non-numeric character entities defined in HTML 2.0, except for "&", "<", and ">", which should be used to escape the characters & < > in an HTML file, and """ to escape a double-quote character in an attribute value.)