[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 13150] Character entity references should produce same result as numeric

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13150





------- Comment #6 from robburns1 at mac.com  2007-03-22 01:10 PDT -------
Just as an example, the pound sterling symbol is in the basic latin 1 from ISO.
It is a compatiblity character at U+00A3. It is cannonically identical to
U+20A4 (₤). However, for normalization these characters should always be
treated as identical. The named character reference £ need not be mapped
to U+20A4 for normalization (as far as I understand it). However, that might be
an easy start. 

There are many HTML named character references (like £) that map to these
discouraged compatibility characters. However, the ⟨ and ⟩ are not
among them. These are characters that are simply not supported byt the standard
Mac OS fonts (which I should probably file a separate bug on that since that
would be a simple fix to many of the fonts). Right now the ⟨ and ⟩
are being mapped from the non-discouraged character to the discouraged
compatibility characters (though this does at least give us a glyph under the
default install its a kludgy way to do it).


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