These are special HTML codes that have been developed to represent the myriad of special characters available, such as the ones outlined above. The solution to this problem is special character codes in HTML. For them displaying these special characters can be a problem. However, what about the other special characters, and what about those people that code their HTML by hand. If you use a “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG) HTML editor such as Adobe GoLive or Macromedia Dreamweaver to create your web pages, using things like the “greater than” and “less than” symbols isn’t a problem. What about the registered trademark symbol, accent marks, or even something as trivial as “greater than” and “less than” symbols? Due to the nature of HTML, using some of these symbols can be confusing, but we are about the clear them up. For example, a copyright statement may have the “©” symbol in it, however there doesn’t seem to be a key for that on the keyboard.
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