Re: Ampersand in text flow and URIs from Karl Dubost on 2012-11-26 (public-markdown@w3.org from November 2012)

From: Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:19:28 +0900
To: Ryan Freebern <rfreebern@unionstmedia.com>
Cc: Markdown List <public-markdown@w3.org>
Message-Id: <D0A6EDAA-5DF5-4403-8E03-EABB6287F19E@opera.com>

Le 26 nov. 2012 à 21:08, Ryan Freebern a écrit :
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com> wrote:
> Are there any other constructs to consider?
> 
> When the text flow contains an HTML entity written by hand: 
> 
> http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/?text=HTML+entities+are+written+using+ampersand+notation%3A+%26copy%3B 

Ah interesting. So basically not escaping it, keeping it as is (and/or converting as utf-8), except when in between `&copy;` -> becomes &amp;copy;

Thanks Ryan. That is useful.
Added https://github.com/karlcow/markdown-testsuite/blob/master/tests/entities-text-flow.md

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Developer Relations, Opera Software

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