Typing html entities in markdown documents

What is an HTML entity? #

An HTML entity is a sequence of characters used in HTML to represent reserved characters like < and &.

The W3C HTML entities reference #

The W3C HTML entities list seems to be a good reference: https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html

A searchable list of HTML entities #

Alpha (uppercase) #

The Greek capital letter alpha: Α

Α

alpha (lowercase) #

The Greek lowercase letter alpha: α

α

Beta (uppercase) #

The Greek uppercase letter Beta: Β

Β

beta (lowercase) #

The Greek lowercase letter beta: β

β

epsilon (lowercase) #

The Greek lowercase letter epsilon: ε

ε

Pi (lowercase) #

The Greek lowercase letter pi: π

π

Diacritics (accents) #

See diacritics-accents .

Acute accent #

The letter “e” with an acute accent: é

é

The letter “E” with an acute accent: É

É

Grave accent #

The letter “a” with a grave accent: à.

à

Circumflex accent #

The letter “a” with a circumflex accent: â.

â

Diaeresis, trema, or umlaut #

The letter “o” with an umlaut: ö.

ö

Tilde #

The letter “n” with a tilde: ñ.

ñ

Ring or bolle #

The letter “a” with a bolle: å.

å

Slash, solidus, or virgule #

The letter “o” with a slash: ø.

ø