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@@ -4145,13 +4145,12 @@ foo ## Entities With the goal of making this standard as HTML-agnostic as possible, all -valid HTML entities in any context are recognized as such and -converted into unicode characters before they are stored in the AST. - -This allows implementations that target HTML output to trivially escape -the entities when generating HTML, and simplifies the job of -implementations targetting other languages, as these will only need to -handle the unicode chars and need not be HTML-entity aware. +valid HTML entities (except in code blocks and code spans) +are recognized as such and converted into unicode characters before +they are stored in the AST. This means that renderers to formats other +than HTML need not be HTML-entity aware. HTML renderers may either escape +unicode characters as entities or leave them as they are. (However, +`"`, `&`, `<`, and `>` must always be rendered as entities.) [Named entities](@name-entities) consist of `&` + any of the valid HTML5 entity names + `;`. The @@ -4159,11 +4158,6 @@ handle the unicode chars and need not be HTML-entity aware. is used as an authoritative source of the valid entity names and their corresponding codepoints. -Conforming implementations that target HTML don't need to generate -entities for all the valid named entities that exist, with the exception -of `"` (`"`), `&` (`&`), `<` (`<`) and `>` (`>`), which -always need to be written as entities for security reasons. - . & © Æ Ď ¾ ℋ ⅆ ∲ . |