Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> I assume that somewhere there is a Web-related spec of the widely >> recognized entity names, but I see no reason to suppose that this list >> is it. Something at w3c, say, would have a tad more credibility. > Maybe this: > http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html Also, I just found this in the XHTML 1.0 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html#a_dtd_Latin-1_characters regards, tom lane