aelig

AElig is the named character reference for the Latin capital letter AE ligature, Æ. It corresponds to Unicode code point U+00C6. In HTML and SGML-derived languages, it is used to encode the single character Æ as a character entity. The lowercase equivalent is aelig, which encodes the lowercase ligature æ (U+00E6).

Usage: In HTML documents, you can write Æ to display Æ. You can also use numeric character references such as Æ or Æ to achieve the same result. These references ensure correct rendering even when the source file’s charset is limited.

Context: The AE ligature originates from the combination of A and E and is used as a distinct letter in several alphabets, including Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese. It appears in various typographic traditions and is included in the Latin-1 Supplement block of Unicode.

Encoding and compatibility: AElig is part of Unicode; modern fonts and browsers support it. In environments that rely on ASCII, the ligature is usually represented by the digraph AE or by numeric escapes.