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HTML Character Entity References of Potential Interest to WordPress Users

character ref #ref name
curly left single quote‘‘‘
curly right single quote’’’
curly left double quote“““
curly right double quote”””
en dash–––
em dash———
ellipsis………
left angle quote«««
right angle quote»»»
single quote (apostrophe)'''
double quote"""
hyphen-- 
backslash\\ 
forward slash// 
period (dot).. 
space   
non-breaking space   
ampersand&&&
less than<&#0060;&lt;
greater than>&#0062;&gt;

I was going to include this table as part of a longer, related entry, but then I thought it might be better posted as a stand-alone reference.

The first several items are things that WordPress will create for you to make your posts prettier. For example, WP will convert normal quotes into curly quotes …