Here are some special characters you'll need to use from time to time when using the real characher might confuse the browser. Special characters start with a & and end with a : Some times you may want more the one space in a row. This can be difficult sense HTML doesn't recognize extra spaces. So you use the non-breaking space special character which is . You see it starts with & next comes nb which stands for non-breaking next we and sp for space and finally we close with semicolon :. Below is list of some other that may come in handy.
Special Character &#?; (where ? is the ISO 8859-1 code)
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