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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 40794@debbugs.gnu.org, Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
Subject: bug#40794: 26.3; HTML entities &star; and &starf; (inter alia) are not parsed by libxml-parse-html-region
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 02:03:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=Ok9qYWSzh03VUDMZTqF9fGLUPXNpOfOiF+VXKidoenA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm=bk0KrnG3y=XET2Mq3o4ttvwdRXW5ONi+2D_o_W0K4vA@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Wed, 9 Sep 2020 06:22:11 -0700")

tags 40794 notabug
close 40794
thanks

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> I had a look at the libxml2 sources.  The logic isn't really explained,
>> but apparently they include all the <255-value entities, and then a
>> selected number of the other entities (about 160 of them).
>>
>> I have no idea what the logic behind this is...  perhaps they've just
>> forgotten to add the new ones?  Which makes me think that this is really
>> a libxml2 bug, and you should report it there instead.
>
> Agreed.  Tim, could you please report this to the libxml2 developers?

That was 10 weeks ago, and we seem to agree that this is not a bug in
Emacs.  I'm therefore closing this bug report.

Please report this issue to the libxml2 developers if it is still an
issue.





      reply	other threads:[~2020-11-25 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-23 13:24 bug#40794: 26.3; HTML entities &star; and &starf; (inter alia) are not parsed by libxml-parse-html-region Tim Landscheidt
2020-07-29  5:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-07-29  5:35   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-09 13:22     ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-25 10:03       ` Stefan Kangas [this message]

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