- ToC ~ Up ~ Prev ~ Next ~ Index Introduction to HTML Last Update: 5 January 1998 4.16 Special Characters -- Character and Entity References Certain characters, such as the left bracket ( ), ampersand (&), etc. are reserved by HTML to represent special attributes such as the start of HTML elements, graphic characters, and so on. In addition there are many ISO-Latin 1 characters that you may wish ...www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/NewHTML/entities.html