The BNC character entities were expanded as follows:
Entity Appears as... aacute a abreve a acirc a aelig ae agr alpha agrave a amacr a amp & aogon a ape equals aring a atilde a auml a bgr beta bull end of phrase cacute c ccaron c ccedil c ccirc c cent cents commat @ copy copyright dash - dcaron d deg degrees dgr delta divide divide dollar $ dstrok d eacute e ecaron e ecirc e eegr eta egr epsilon egrave e emacr e eogon e equals equals eth th euml e frac12 # frac13 # frac14 # frac15 # frac16 # frac17 # frac18 # frac19 # frac23 # frac25 # frac34 # frac35 # frac38 # frac45 # frac47 # frac56 # frac58 # frac78 # ft _feet ggr gamma half # hstrok h iacute i icirc i igr iota igrave i imacr i ins _inches iuml i kgr kappa khgr chi lacute l lgr lambda lstrok l mdash end of phrase mgr mu nacute n ncaron n ncedil n ndash - ntilde n num # oacute o ocirc o oelig oe ogr o ograve o ohgr o ohm ohm omacr o oslash o otilde o ouml o percnt per cent pgr pi phgr phi pound £ psgr psi racute r rcaron r reg registered rgr rho sacute s scaron s scedil s scirc s sect section sgr sigma shilling _shilling sup1 # sup2 # sup3 # szlig ss tcaron t tcedil t tgr tau thgr theta thorn th times times trade trademark uacute u ucirc u ugr upsilon ugrave u umacr u uring u uuml u wcirc w xgr chi yacute y ycirc y yen yen yuml y zacute z zcaron z zdot z zgr zeta