On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 05:19:15PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > Hello, > > There are new HTML 5 base entities (dot, breve...) for accented letters, > and more accented letters: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references > > I think that it is better if the new base entities are considered to be > available anyway, as they only will be used if associated to letters, > and will be used for accent type in Texinfo XML, which I believe is > good. > > The question is should I add the corresponding letters, and add the new > letters to existing base entities? > > If we do not do that, there isn't much loss, as numerical entities are > used if there are no textual entities, which is ok. If we do it, we > wouldn't be outputting valid HTML 4 anymore, which is also probably ok > nowadays. Surely it's better not to use them if they have only recently been added to the standards. Is there any information available anywhere on browser support?
I don't know if that Wikipedia page is to be trusted as it refers to a "HTML 5.0" and in some text implies there is a DTD for such a version of HTML. I can find references to HTML 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 W3C standards but as far as I am aware there is no such thing as "HTML 5.0".
