How do I enter a character entity?

How can I enter a character entity by name into an XHTML (not MathML)
file? For example, I'd like to add things like π and ≤ into a
document. I know I can enter them into the raw text, but that's pretty
tedious. Is there a better way?

Thanks,

Cay

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Cay S. Horstmann | http://horstmann.com | mailto:cay@horstmann.com

Received on Wednesday, 17 October 2007 19:44:20 UTC