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Are named entities in HTML the same as characters?

April 26, 2017characters entities html named

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Are named entities in HTML the same as characters?

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No. They are an abstracted, markup representation of a character. They were invented primarily so that there was some way to represent character content in text using a character set for which there was no directly encoded character for the entity in question.