sually written with uppercase letters, we have
converted them to lowercase in this specification for reasons of
readability.</p>

<h2><a name="h-24.2">24.2</a> <a name="iso-88591">Character entity references
for ISO 8859-1 characters</a></h2>

<p>The character entity references in this section produce characters whose
numeric equivalents should already be supported by conforming HTML 2.0 user
agents. Thus, the character entity reference &amp;divide; is a more convenient
form than &amp;#247; for obtaining th