Marusya's School Notes

Entity: Diacritical Marks

A diacritical mark is a "glyph" added to a letter. Some diacritical marks, like grave ( _̀ ) and acute ( _́ ) are called accents. Diacritical marks can appear both above and below a letter, inside a letter, or between two letters. They can be used in combination with alphanumeric characters, to produce a character that is not present in the character set (encoding) used in the HTML document.

To construct a diacritical mark with a character, you need to first type the character, then add the entity for the diacritical mark. For example:

He&#769le&#768ne     ==>  Hélène

Mark	Character	Entity Construction	Result
̀	a	à	à
́	u	ú	ú
̂	i	î	î
̃	n	ñ	ñ
̀	E	È	È
́	Y	Ý	Ý
̂	O	Ô	Ô
̃	A	Ã	Ã

The purpose of entities are starting to make sense now!

Mark	Character	Entity Construction	Result
̀	a	à	à
́	u	ú	ú
̂	i	î	î
̃	n	ñ	ñ
̀	E	È	È
́	Y	Ý	Ý
̂	O	Ô	Ô
̃	A	Ã	Ã

Mark	Character	Entity Construction	Result
̀	a	à	à
́	u	ú	ú
̂	i	î	î
̃	n	ñ	ñ
̀	E	È	È
́	Y	Ý	Ý
̂	O	Ô	Ô
̃	A	Ã	Ã

Mark	Character	Entity Construction	Result
̀	a	à	à
́	u	ú	ú
̂	i	î	î
̃	n	ñ	ñ
̀	E	È	È
́	Y	Ý	Ý
̂	O	Ô	Ô
̃	A	Ã	Ã