Iso-8859-1 Is The Default Character Set In Most Browsers.

ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-1 is the default character set in most browsers.
The first 128 characters of ISO-8859-1 is the original ASCII character-set (the numbers from 0-9, the uppercase and lowercaseEnglish alphabet, and some special characters).
The higher part of ISO-8859-1 (codes from 160-255) contains the characters used in Western European countries and some commonly used special characters.Entities are used to implement reserved characters or to express characters that cannot easily be entered with the keyboard.

Reserved Characters in HTML
Some characters are reserved in HTML andXHTML. For example, you cannot use the greater than or less than signs within your text because the browser could mistake them for markup.
HTML and XHTML processors must support the five specialcharacters listed in the table below:
Character | Entity Number | Entity Name | Description |
" | " | " | quotation mark |
' | ' | ' | apostrophe  |
& |& | & | ampersand |
< | < | < | less-than |
> | > | > | greater-than |
Note: Entity names are case sensitive
ISO 8859-1 Symbols
Character | EntityNumber | Entity Name | Description |
  |   |   | non-breaking space |
¡ | ¡ | ¡ | inverted exclamation mark |
¢ | ¢ | ¢ | cent |
£ |£ | £ | pound |
¤ | ¤ | ¤ | currency |
¥ | ¥ | ¥ | yen |
¦ | ¦ | ¦ | broken vertical bar |
§ | § | §| section |
¨ | ¨ | ¨ | spacing diaeresis |
© | © | © | copyright |
ª | ª | ª | feminine ordinal indicator |
« | « | « |angle quotation mark (left) |
¬ | ¬ | ¬ | negation |
| ­ | ­ | soft hyphen |
® | ® | ® | registered trademark |
¯ | ¯ |...