Link markup does not recognize HTML Symbol entities

[selden]

Describe the bug. Link markup does not recognize HTML Symbol entities

To Reproduce: Use an HTML Symbol entity in the text component of the link markup.

Expected behavior. The symbol should be seen when the markup is rendered. Instead, the characters comprising the symbol's name are shown.

Symbols are shown when the Link macro is used. Markup should show them too.

Screenshots. for chrome w/sugarcube 2.36 and firefox w/sugarcube 2.37 are attached

Project details.

• SugarCube Version: both 2.36.1 and 2.37.0 alpha 18
• Included Add-ons: none
• Included Libraries: none
• Compiler & Version: Tweego 2.1.1

Desktop details.

• OS & Version: Windows 10 Pro x64 22H2
• Browser & Version both Chrome 119 (64-bit) and Firefox 119 (64-bit)]

Smartphone/tablet details. not tested

Additional context. Zip containing test_symbol.tw is attached.

test_symbol.zip

[tmedwards]

From the link markup documentation:

SugarCube's link markup consists of a required Link component and optional Text and Setter components. The Link and Text components may be either plain text or any valid TwineScript expression, […]

The link markup's text component has never been treated as HTML, thus HTML named entities and numeric references will not work.

Changing that in v2 would be a breaking change for very little benefit.

If you need such characters to appear within links, either:

• Use the <<link> macro.
• Use the HTML <a> tag.
• Use the literal character—e.g., [[Literal characters ©™|…]].

[selden]

The underlying issue for me is that I sometimes want multi-word text components not to be broken across multiple lines on the screen. I had hoped to be able to use   between them.

Fortunately, it seems that using the HTML token pair... around the link markup does what I need.

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From: Thomas M. Edwards @.***> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 12:49 AM To: tmedwards/sugarcube-2 Cc: Selden E. Ball, Jr; Author Subject: Re: [tmedwards/sugarcube-2] Link markup does not recognize HTML Symbol entities (Issue #283)

From the link markup documentationhttps://www.motoslave.net/sugarcube/2/docs/#markup-link:

SugarCube's link markup consists of a required Link component and optional Text and Setter components. The Link and Text components may be either plain text or any valid TwineScript expression, […]

The link markup's text component has never been treated as HTML, thus HTML named entities and numeric references will not work.

Changing that in v2 would be a breaking change for very little benefit.

If you need such characters in links, either:

• Use the < macro.
• Use the HTML tag.
• Use the literal character—e.g., `[[Literal characters­©™|…]]

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