#summary &acirc character entity
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== Value ==

There are 4 variations of this entity:

  * `Â` maps to the Unicode character [http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00c2/index.htm U+000C2].
  * `&Acirc` maps to the Unicode character [http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00c2/index.htm U+000C2].
  * `â` maps to the Unicode character [http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00e2/index.htm U+000E2].
  * `&acirc` maps to the Unicode character [http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00e2/index.htm U+000E2].

== Browser compatibility ==

[ArticleBrowserCompatibilityLegend Compatibility table legend]

|| *Test* || *IE8* || *IE7* || *IE6* || *FF3* || *FF2* || *Saf3* || *Op9* || *Chrome* ||
|| [http://doctype.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/tests/html/entities/acirc-000e2-entity-test.html â character entity treated as U+000E2] || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y ||
|| [http://doctype.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/tests/html/entities/acirc-capital-000c2-entity-test.html  character entity treated as U+000C2] || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y ||
|| [http://doctype.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/tests/html/entities/acirc-capital-no-semicolon-000c2-entity-test.html &Acirc character entity treated as U+000C2] || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y ||
|| [http://doctype.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/tests/html/entities/acirc-no-semicolon-000e2-entity-test.html &acirc character entity treated as U+000E2] || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y || Y ||

== Further reading ==

  * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/named.html Named character references in HTML 5]
  * [http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html Character entity references in HTML 4]
  * [http://blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagpages/text.htm Text in HTML (blooberry.com)]