[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #13341: XHTML named entities break XHTML document

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#13341: XHTML named entities break XHTML document
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 Reporter:  nicholaswilson  |       Owner:            
     Type:  defect (bug)    |      Status:  new       
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  Unassigned
Component:  Template        |     Version:  2.9.2     
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:            
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Comment(by nicholaswilson):

 Yes; that is very lucky if you are foreign and your translation file fixes
 it, but the defaults should be changed so that it works out of the box
 with English.

 Wordpress needs to be consistent and either produce HTML or produce HTML-
 compatible XHTML. Seeing as the latter has been chosen, it is required
 that there to be no DTD-declared entities. The core by default should
 output any for the output to be consistent, as an XHTML doctype at the
 very least indicates the document should be *able* to be served as XML
 (and more controversially as HTML with certain compatibility problems).

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