From WikiJava
in this page you can find the escape character table to be able to rendere properly in HTML all the control character that normally would be interpreted by the browser and ruin your articles.
| Character | HTML | Alternate HTML | Explanation
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| | 	 | | Horizontal tab |
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| | | | Line feed
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| | | | Carriage Return
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| Space |   | | Space
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| ! | ! | | Exclamation mark
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| " | " | " | Quotation mark
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| # | # | | Number sign
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| $ | $ | | Dollar sign
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| % | % | | Percent sign
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| & | & | & | Ampersand
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| ' | ' | | Apostrophe
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| ( | ( | | Left parenthesis
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| ) | ) | | Right parenthesis
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| * | * | | Asterisk
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+ Plus sign
| , | , | | Comma
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| . | . | | Period (fullstop)
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| / | / | | Solidus (slash)
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| : | : | | Colon
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| ; | ; | | Semi-colon
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| < | < | < | Less than
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| = | = | | Equals sign
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| > | > | > | Greater than
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| ? | ? | | Question mark
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| @ | @ | | Commercial at
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| [ | [ | | Left square bracket
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| \ | \ | | Reverse solidus (backslash)
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| ] | ] | | Right square bracket
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| ^ | ^ | | Caret
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| _ | _ | | Horizontal bar (underscore)
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| ` | ` | | Acute accent
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| { | { | | Left curly brace
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| | | | | | Vertical bar
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| } | } | | Right curly brace
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| ~ | ~ | | Tilde
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Common escapes
Specifically for the WikiJava forms the following characters and sequences are reserved and must be always escaped when inserting inside pages.
- pipe |
- escape with |
- double open curly bracket {{
- escape with {{
- double closed curly bracket }}
- escape with }}
