Looking at this official entities.json file, some of the entities are defined without an ending semicolon.
For example:
"Â": { "codepoints": [194], "characters": "\u00C2" },
"Â": { "codepoints": [194], "characters": "\u00C2" },
Where is that documented in HTML5? Or is that a browser thing¹?
¹ thing as in extension for backward compatibility.
CodePudding user response：
HTML named character list is defined at https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/named-characters.html and yes, some of these don't have a trailing ; e.g ¬
¬CodePudding user response：
I made a program in python to get some numbers, and I found out that:
In the 2231 total entities, there are 4.75% or 106 valid entities without a semi-colon at end
All those entities:
Æ, &, Á, Â, À, Å, Ã, Ä, ©, Ç, Ð, É, Ê, È, Ë, >, Í, Î, Ì, Ï, <, Ñ, Ó, Ô, Ò, Ø, Õ, Ö, ", ®, Þ, Ú, Û, Ù, Ü, Ý, á, â, ´, æ, à, &, å, ã, ä, ¦, ç, ¸, ¢, ©, ¤, °, ÷, é, ê, è, ð, ë, ½, ¼, ¾, >, í, î, ¡, ì, ¿, ï, «, <, ¯, µ, ·,  , ¬, ñ, ó, ô, ò, ª, º, ø, õ, ö, ¶, ±, £, ", », ®, §, ­, ¹, ², ³, ß, þ, ×, ú, û, ù, ¨, ü, ý, ¥, ÿ