### 30.5 Mapping special characters

Special-character handling is not a strong point of HTML. DITA2Go automatically maps characters with ASCII codes 128 through 159, the “high ASCII” characters, to equivalent HTML character entity references. You can specify other character mappings, or even prevent DITA2Go from mapping special characters.

In this section:

§30.5.1 Converting Western European accented characters

§30.5.2 Mapping individual special characters

§30.5.3 Avoiding use of special characters in URIs

§30.5.4 Preventing character mapping

See also:

§22.4.3 Specifying character encoding for HTML

§22.14.2 Replacing high ASCII characters for W3C validation

§23.2.3 Specifying character encoding for generic XML

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Parent Topic: 30. Mapping text formats to HTML/XML

Sibling Topics:

30.1 Choosing how to map formats

30.2 Mapping paragraph formats

30.3 Mapping character formats

30.4 Assigning properties to text formats

30.6 Mapping fonts

30.7 Managing typographic elements for HTML or XML

30.8 Specifying text colors for HTML

30.9 Configuring preformatted text for HTML/XML

30.10 Converting footnotes to HTML or XML

30.11 Converting list formats to HTML (deprecated)