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Coding Special Characters in HTML
To create a wide variety of special characters, use something called a "character entity." In general these are coded as follows:
&<insert code here>;
That is, they begin with & and end with ; and have some special code in
the middle. You can find a list of these characters in many places; one such is http://www.intuitive.com/coolweb/entities.html. 
In the specific case of accented letters for all non-English languages,
the general template is:
&<letter><accent>;
Where:
<letter> is the letter you're accenting (a, e, i, n, etc.); use either
a lowercase or capital letter and that type of letter will show up
<accent> is the name of the specific accent. "acute" is the line from
the lower left to the upper right. "grave" is the line from the upper
left to the lower right. "tilde" is the ~ character. "circ" is the ^
character (short for "circumflex"). "cedil" is the curvy line under a
"c" (short for "cedilla").
Thus, for each of the following, use the code next to it below:
à = à
À = À
Á = Á
á = á
Ô = Ô
ô = ô
Ñ = Ñ
ñ = ñ
Ç = Ç
ç = ç
ö = ö
Ö = Ö
There are many other accents available; these have been provided only as examples.
See the page listed above for the complete set of all special characters, including accented letters.
