Special characters

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Character	Decimal character reference	Hexadecimal character reference	Named entity
á	á	á	á
ß	ß	ß	ß
©	©	©	©
¥	¥	&#x00A5	¥
±	±	±	±
✓	⇒	✓	✓

 

Unicode name	Character reference	DocBook entity	Description
SPACE	 		Ordinary space.
NO-BREAK SPACE	 	 	Space that may not be broken at the end of a line.
NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE	 		Thinner than NO-BREAK SPACE.
EN QUAD	 		Same as EN SPACE.
EM QUAD	 		Same as EM SPACE
EN SPACE	 	 	Half an EM SPACE.
EM SPACE	 	 	Usually a space equal to the type size in points.
THREE-PER-EM SPACE	 	 	One-third of an EM SPACE, called a thick space.
FOUR-PER-EM-SPACE	 	 	One-fourth of an EM SPACE, called a mid space.
SIX-PER-EM-SPACE	 		One-sixth of an EM SPACE, similar to thin space.
FIGURE SPACE	 	 	Width of a digit in some fonts.
PUNCTUATION SPACE	 	 	Space equal to the narrow punctuation of a font.
THIN SPACE	 	 	One-fifth of an EM SPACE, usually.
HAIR SPACE	 	 	Thinner than a thin space.
ZERO WIDTH SPACE	​		No visible space. Used to allow a line break in a word without generating a hyphen.
ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE			No visible space. Used to prevent a line break, as for example, after the hyphen in a word that contains its own hyphen.