HTML named entity issue [I18N-ACTION-1244]

All,

 

Pursuant to my action item [1] to find and possibly re-open the issue about
named entities for isolating bidi controls, I traced the issue and found the
relevant part of the conversation roughly here:

 

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5121#issuecomment-719406247

 

The WHATWG HTML group decided to add *no* new named entities ever and the
reason is that it would break existing HTML processors (not just browsers).
I did not re-open 5121. I think we should discuss whether we should attempt
to re-raise this.

 

[1] https://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/1244

 

Addison Phillips

Chair (W3C Internationalization WG)

 

Internationalization is not a feature.

It is an architecture.