Opened 13 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
#20949 closed enhancement (duplicate)
Change all built in named entities to numeric entities
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Description
In the core code, this should be done for easier compatibility with html 5. Polyglot markup only has 5 named entities. These need not be changed. They are amp, lt, gt, apos, and quot.
Named entities are case-sensitive, which may cause problems. Numbers do not have case, which means they do not have this issue.
Changing entities from named to numeric is a rather small task and it should greatly help overall portability. I am unaware of any implementation that supports only named entities.
Also numeric entities should be infinitesimally quicker to look up by browsers, being a numeric index.
Example
- change › to ›
- change ← to ←
and so on
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