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# Numeric and Special Graphic Character Entities (%isonum;)

%isonum; — Numeric and Special Graphic Character Entities

## Synopsis

The `%isonum;` parameter entity includes the ISO character entities with the public identifier:

      ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Numeric and Special Graphic//EN

## Description

The following character entities are defined in this entity set:

Entity Name | Unicode Code point | Sample Glyph | Description
--- | --- | --- | ---
half | 00BD |  | Vulgar fraction one half
frac12 | 00BD |  | Vulgar fraction one half
frac14 | 00BC |  | Vulgar fraction one quarter
frac34 | 00BE |  | Vulgar fraction three quarters
frac18 | 215B |  | Vulgar fraction one eighth
frac38 | 215C |  | Vulgar fraction three eighths
frac58 | 215D |  | Vulgar fraction five eighths
frac78 | 215E |  | Vulgar fraction seven eighths
sup1 | 00B9 |  | Superscript one
sup2 | 00B2 |  | Superscript two
sup3 | 00B3 |  | Superscript three
plus | 002B |  | Plus sign
plusmn | 00B1 |  | Plus-minus sign
lt | 003C |  | Less-than sign
equals | 003D |  | Equals sign
gt | 003E |  | Greater-than sign
divide | 00F7 |  | Division sign
times | 00D7 |  | Multiplication sign
curren | 00A4 |  | Currency sign
pound | 00A3 |  | Pound sign
dollar | 0024 |  | Dollar sign
cent | 00A2 |  | Cent sign
yen | 00A5 |  | Yen sign
num | 0023 |  | Number sign
percnt | 0025 |  | Percent sign
amp | 0026 |  | Ampersand
ast | 002A |  | Asterisk
commat | 0040 |  | Commercial at
lsqb | 005B |  | Left square bracket
bsol | 005C |  | Reverse solidus
rsqb | 005D |  | Right square bracket
lcub | 007B |  | Left curly bracket
horbar | 2015 |  | Horizontal bar
verbar | 007C |  | Vertical line
rcub | 007D |  | Right curly bracket
micro | 00B5 |  | Micro sign
ohm | 2126 |  | Ohm sign
deg | 00B0 |  | Degree sign
ordm | 00BA |  | Masculine ordinal indicator
ordf | 00AA |  | Feminine ordinal indicator
sect | 00A7 |  | Section sign
para | 00B6 |  | Pilcrow sign
middot | 00B7 |  | Middle dot
larr | 2190 |  | Leftwards arrow
rarr | 2192 |  | Rightwards arrow
uarr | 2191 |  | Upwards arrow
darr | 2193 |  | Downwards arrow
copy | 00A9 |  | Copyright sign
reg | 00AE |  | Registered sign
trade | 2122 |  | Trade mark sign
brvbar | 00A6 |  | Broken bar
not | 00AC |  | Not sign
sung |  |  | Eighth note
excl | 0021 |  | Exclamation mark
iexcl | 00A1 |  | Inverted exclamation mark
quot | 0022 |  | Quotation mark
apos | 0027 |  | Apostrophe
lpar | 0028 |  | Left parenthesis
rpar | 0029 |  | Right parenthesis
comma | 002C |  | Comma
lowbar | 005F |  | Low line
hyphen | 002D |  | Hyphen
period | 002E |  | Period
sol | 002F |  | Solidus
colon | 003A |  | Colon
semi | 003B |  | Semicolon
quest | 003F |  | Question mark
iquest | 00BF |  | Inverted question mark
laquo | 00AB |  | Left-pointing double angle quotation mark
raquo | 00BB |  | Right-pointing double angle quotation mark
lsquo | 2018 |  | Left single quotation mark
rsquo | 2019 |  | Right single quotation mark
ldquo | 201C |  | Left double quotation mark
rdquo | 201D |  | Right double quotation mark
nbsp | 00A0 |  | No-break space
shy | 00AD |  | Soft hyphen

Added Latin 2 Character Entities (%isolat2;) |  | Publishing Character Entities (%isopub;)

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