Uri, Here are some other web pages that explain and list named entities: UNICODE code charts (pdf versions) http://www.unicode.org/charts/ W3C HTML 4.01 Specification "HTML Document Representation" http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html W3C "Character encodings" http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset W3C "Additional named entities for HTML" http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-entities-961125 MSDN "Additional Named Entities for HTML" http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/charsets/charset2.asp