How to display special characters like comma,$ etc in visualforce page

Sample Visualforce page to display comma,ampersand and asterisk
<apex:page>
To display ampersand : &#38;<br/>
To display asterisk  : &#42;<br/>
To display comma     : &#44;<br/>
</apex:page>
Output:

Note : Go through the link for more symbols and their associated code to be used to display it in visualforce page. Symbols