spec/Overview.html 1.1682 2511 Explain(?) that entities inside escaping

Explain(?) that entities inside escaping text spans don't have any
effect. (credit: hs) (whatwg r2511)

escaping text span
http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.1682.html#syntax-escape
escaping text span end
http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.1682.html#syntax-escape-end
escaping text span start
http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.1682.html#syntax-escape-start

http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.diff.html
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.1681&r2=1.1682&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=2510&to=2511

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   span</a>, and ends at the next <a href=#syntax-escape-end title=syntax-escape-end>escaping text span end</a>. There
   cannot be any <a href=#syntax-charref title=syntax-charref>character
   references</a> inside an <a href=#syntax-escape title=syntax-escape>escaping
-  text span</a>.<p>An <dfn id=syntax-escape-start title=syntax-escape-start>escaping text span
+  text span</a> &mdash; sequences of characters that would look
+  like <a href=#syntax-charref title=syntax-charref>character references</a> do not
+  have special meaning.<p>An <dfn id=syntax-escape-start title=syntax-escape-start>escaping text span
   start</dfn> is a part of <a href=#syntax-text title=syntax-text>text</a> that
   consists of the four character sequence "<code title="">&lt;!--</code>" (U+003C LESS-THAN SIGN, U+0021 EXCLAMATION
   MARK, U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS, U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS).<p>An <dfn id=syntax-escape-end title=syntax-escape-end>escaping text span end</dfn> is

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