Here are some of the more commonly used characters and their ASCII equivalents.

To use a character just copy and paste the ascii symbol into the formatting of your Web page at the spot where you want the character to show up.

Description	Char	HEX	ASCII
space		20	 
exclamation mark	!	21	!
(double) quotation mark	"	22	"
number sign	#	23	#
dollar sign	$	24	$
percent sign	%	25	%
ampersand	&	26	&
apostrophe	'	27	'
open parenthesis	(	28	(
close parenthesis	)	29	)
asterisk	*	2A	*
plus sign	+	2B	+
comma	,	2C	,
minus sign/hyphen	-	2D	-
division sign	÷	F7	÷
period, decimal point	.	2E	.
slash, virgule, solidus	/	2F	/
digit 0	0	30	0
digit 1	1	31	1
digit 2	2	32	2
digit 3	3	33	3
digit 4	4	34	4
digit 5	5	35	5
digit 6	6	36	6
digit 7	7	37	7
digit 8	8	38	8
digit 9	9	39	9
colon	:	3A	:
semicolon	;	3B	&#059;
less-than sign	<	3C	&#060;
equal sign	=	3D	&#061;
greater-than sign	>	3E	&#062;
question mark	?	3F	&#063;
commercial "at" sign	@	40	&#064;
capital A	A	41	&#065;
capital B	B	42	&#066;
capital C	C	43	&#067;
capital D	D	44	&#068;
capital E	E	45	&#069;
capital F	F	46	&#070;
capital G	G	47	&#071;
capital H	H	48	&#072;
capital I	I	49	&#073;
capital J	J	4A	&#074;
capital K	K	4B	&#075;
capital L	L	4C	&#076;
capital M	M	4D	&#077;
capital N	N	4E	&#078;
capital O	O	4F	&#079;
capital P	P	50	&#080;
capital Q	Q	51	&#081;
capital R	R	52	&#082;
capital S	S	53	&#083;
capital T	T	54	&#084;
capital U	U	55	&#085;
capital V	V	56	&#086;
capital W	W	57	&#087;
capital X	X	58	&#088;
capital Y	Y	59	&#089;
capital Z	Z	5A	&#090;
left square bracket	[	5B	&#091;
backslash, reverse solidus	\	5C	&#092;
right square bracket	]	5D	&#093;
spacing circumflex accent	^	5E	&#094;
spacing underscore, low line	_	5F	&#095;
spacing grave accent	`	60	&#096;
small a	a	61	&#097;
small b	b	62	&#098;
small c	c	63	&#099;
small d	d	64	&#100;
small e	e	65	&#101;
small f	f	66	&#102;
small g	g	67	&#103;
small h	h	68	&#104;
small i	i	69	&#105;
small j	j	6A	&#106;
small k	k	6B	&#107;
small l	l	6C	&#108;
small m	m	6D	&#109;
small n	n	6E	&#110;
small o	o	6F	&#111;
small p	p	70	&#112;
small q	q	71	&#113;
small r	r	72	&#114;
small s	s	73	&#115;
small t	t	74	&#116;
small u	u	75	&#117;
small v	v	76	&#118;
small w	w	77	&#119;
small x	x	78	&#120;
small y	y	79	&#121;
small z	z	7A	&#122;
left brace (curly bracket)	{	7B	&#123;
vertical bar	|	7C	&#124;
right brace (curly bracket)	}	7D	&#125;
tilde accent	~	7E	&#126;
delete	^?	7F	&#127;
letter modifying circumflex	ˆ	88	&#136;
per thousand (mille) sign	‰	89	&#137;
capital S caron or hacek	Š	8A	&#138;
left single angle quote mark	‹	8B	&#139;
left single quotation mark	‘	91	&#145;
right single quote mark	’	92	&#146;
left double quotation mark	“	93	&#147;
right double quote mark	”	94	&#148;
round filled bullet	•	95	&#149;
en dash	–	96	&#150;
em dash	—	97	&#151;
small spacing tilde accent	˜	98	&#152;
trademark sign	™	99	&#153;
inverted exclamation mark	¡	A1	&#161;
cent sign	¢	A2	&#162;
pound sterling sign	£	A3	&#163;
yen sign	¥	A5	&#165;
broken vertical bar	¦	A6	&#166;
section sign	§	A7	&#167;
copyright sign	©	A9	&#169;
logical not sign	¬	AC	&#172;
soft hyphen	­	AD	&#173;
registered trademark sign	®	AE	&#174;
degree sign	°	B0	&#176;
plus-or-minus sign	±	B1	&#177;
micro sign	µ	B5	&#181;
paragraph sign, pilcrow sign	¶	B6	&#182;
inverted question mark	¿	BF	&#191;
capital A grave	À	C0	&#192;
capital A acute	Á	C1	&#193;
capital A circumflex	Â	C2	&#194;
capital A tilde	Ã	C3	&#195;
capital A dieresis or umlaut	Ä	C4	&#196;
capital A ring	Å	C5	&#197;
capital AE ligature	Æ	C6	&#198;
capital C cedilla	Ç	C7	&#199;
capital E grave	È	C8	&#200;
capital E acute	É	C9	&#201;
capital E circumflex	Ê	CA	&#202;
capital E dieresis or umlaut	Ë	CB	&#203;
capital I grave	Ì	CC	&#204;
capital I acute	Í	CD	&#205;
capital I circumflex	Î	CE	&#206;
capital I dieresis or umlaut	Ï	CF	&#207;
capital N tilde	Ñ	D1	&#209;
small sharp s, sz ligature	ß	DF	&#223;
small a grave	à	E0	&#224;
small a acute	á	E1	&#225;
small a circumflex	â	E2	&#226;
small a tilde	ã	E3	&#227;
small a dieresis or umlaut	ä	E4	&#228;
small a ring	å	E5	&#229;
small ae ligature	æ	E6	&#230;
small c cedilla	ç	E7	&#231;
small e grave	è	E8	&#232;
small e acute	é	E9	&#233;
small e circumflex	ê	EA	&#234;
small e dieresis or umlaut	ë	EB	&#235;
small n tilde	ñ	F1	&#241;