Special Characters

Because the source codes for Web pages are created with plain ASCII text only, the characters on the source code are limited to the standard keyboard characters. To have special characters such as œ, ß, ñ, or © show up on a web page, designers must utilize special HTML codes.
Example:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/csp/cs03/samples/ascii.html

Because the source codes for Web pages are created with plain ASCII text only, the characters on the source code are limited to the standard keyboard characters. To have special characters such as œ, ß, ñ, or © show up on a web page, designers must utilize special HTML codes.