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15. Special characters

A wide variety of special symbols are available in DocBook. These character entities always start with an ampersand (&) and end with a semicolon (;).

For more information on named Unicode characters, see XML entity definitions for characters. However, there is no guarantee that any of these entities will work in the local toolchain; it is best to test any characters before using them in publications.

15.1. Universally available entities

Entities for these five special characters are always available:

&lt;<
&gt;>
&amp;&
&apos;'
&quot;"