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CommonMark spec, with reference implementations in C and JavaScript
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Reword “entities” to “named character references” #615

Open wooorm opened 5 years ago

wooorm commented 5 years ago

The HTML spec (no longer?) does not reference “entities”. Instead, there are two/three types of character references: named, numerical (hexadecimal or decimal). (for reference: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#character-reference-state)

I think rewording the CM spec to use the term “character references” is good, it would be more in line with HTML, and simplify phrases such as “Entity and character references”, or naming escapes and character references as two mechanisms similar mechanisms.

wooorm commented 4 years ago

@jgm Friendly ping! I can create a PR if this is of interest