[whatwg] HTML5 named entity ≫ and ≪

Mike Samuel mikesamuel at gmail.com
Wed Dec 14 13:30:22 PST 2011


2011/12/14 Anne van Kesteren <annevk at opera.com>:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:18:30 +0100, Mike Samuel <mikesamuel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> This is a potential source of confusion for naive HTML entity decoders
>> fall-back to case-insensitive matching when there is no mapping for a
>> given entity name.
>
>
> Entities are case-sensitive. If you match something that is case-sensitive,
> case-insensitively, I'm sorry to say, you are doing it wrong :-)

I realize that.  Nevertheless, it is a potential source of confusion.



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