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Special Characters

 
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Web browsers may not display every character that can be generated on a computer correctly. In particular characters which are part of the "extended ASCII set" such as curly apostrophes and quotation marks should not be used. 

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Some characters need to be treated in a special way because they are part of the markup notation. These are "<", ">" and "&". If they are included in the text of a page it may confuse some browsers. Use "&lt;" instead of "<", "&gt;" instead of ">" and "&amp;" instead of "&". These special characters are used a great deal in The Naked Website. 

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The pound sign; "£" is displayed using "&#163;". 

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