Re: Update List of Character Entity Names

Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Jan 2025 16:34:46 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
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On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 11:15:23AM -0700, Brian Inglis wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Many sites are now using Character Entity Names defined under
> 
> 	https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/

https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/#source

	Note:  unicode.xml is over 5MB in size and may not really be suitable
	for direct viewing in a browser.  You may prefer to save the file
	rather than follow the above link to unicode.xml in a browser.

(sounds like a lot of data - bigger than the current lynx executable)
 
> 	https://github.com/w3c/xml-entities/blob/gh-pages/unicode.xml
> 
> 	https://github.com/w3c/xml-entities/raw/refs/heads/gh-pages/unicode.xml
> 
> https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/named-characters.html#named-character-references
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references
> 
> which currently render verbatim rather than being ignored or blanked, for example:
> 
> 	$ lynx -dump -nonumbers -nolist libera.chat | grep '&[^;]\+;'
> 	                          Libera.&ZeroWidthSpace;Chat
> 	Libera.&ZeroWidthSpace;Chat
> 
> Please consider updating your entities from what I can see in your
> snapshots, or provide an innocuous default?
> 
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> 
> -- 
> Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada
> 
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> 
> 

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Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
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