non-SGML characters

[bob at esrl.lib.md.us]

Hello.

I've been using the • character to separate our address information
at the bottom of our pages. But now, as I'm moving to XHTML 1.0, I'm
finding that when I validate these characters are returned with the error
"reference to non-SGML character".

Here's my line to define content-type:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />

Is there a different charset I should be using that would allow these
characters to validate properly?

I could just take them out. They aren't critical. But I'd like to know
why they don't work with XHTML.

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Bob Long, Eastern Shore Regional Library
Senior Systems Technician
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