French-Language Character Entities

Letters


Description                          Char Entity name   
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capital A, grave accent              À    À --> À
small   a, grave accent              à    à --> à
capital A, circumflex accent         Â    Â  --> Â
small   a, circumflex accent         â    â  --> â
capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark   Ä    Ä   --> Ä
small   a, dieresis or umlaut mark   ä    ä   --> ä
capital AE diphthong (ligature)      Æ    Æ  --> Æ
small   ae diphthong (ligature)      æ    æ  --> æ
capital C, cedilla                   Ç    Ç --> Ç
small   c, cedilla                   ç    ç --> ç
capital E, grave accent              È    È --> È
small   e, grave accent              è    è --> è
capital E, acute accent              É    É --> É
small   e, acute accent              é    é --> é
capital E, circumflex accent         Ê    Ê  --> Ê
small   e, circumflex accent         ê    ê  --> ê
capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark   Ë    Ë   --> Ë
small   e, dieresis or umlaut mark   ë    ë   --> ë
capital I, circumflex accent         Î    Î  --> Î
small   i, circumflex accent         î    î  --> î
capital I, dieresis                  Ï    Ï   --> Ï
small   i, dieresis                  ï    ï   --> ï
capital O, circumflex accent         Ô    Ô  --> Ô
small   o, circumflex accent         ô    ô  --> ô
capital U, grave accent              Ù    Ù --> Ù
small   u, grave accent              ù    ù --> ù
capital U, circumflex accent         Û    Û  --> Û
small   u, circumflex accent         û    û  --> û
capital U, dieresis                  Ü    Ü   --> Ü
small   u, dieresis                  ü    ü   --> ü

Punctuation

Description                          Char Entity name   
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quotation mark                        "   "   --> "
non-breaking space                            -->  
left angle quote, guillemet left      «   «  --> «
right angle quote, guillemet right    »   »  --> »

Special Characters

Description                          Char Entity name   
===================================  ==== ==============

section sign                         §    §   --> §
degree sign                          °    °    --> °
masculine ordinal                    º    º   --> º
euro symbol                          €    €   --> €

ampersand                             &   &    --> &
less-than sign                        <   &lt;     --> <
greater-than sign                     >   &gt;     --> >

1st:

textual description of the character

2nd:

character inserted directly into the HTML page as one byte

3rd:

character written as symbolic HTML entity, in the format:
"how it looks literally" --> "what your browser does with it"