Module entities 

The WHATWG named character references — GENERATED, do not hand-edit.

Regenerate with python3 scripts/dev/gen-html-entities.py; html_entity_table_lock fails if this file and that generator disagree.

★ WHY THE WHOLE LIST. The tokenizer used to know fifteen names and pass everything else through as literal text, so é painted the six characters é onto the page instead of é — a silent wrong render, in ordinary prose, with nothing anywhere reporting it. Ninety-three of these names map to MORE THAN ONE code point, which is why the value is a string and not a char.

Constants

LONGEST_NAME

The longest name in NAMED, excluding the & and ;. The tokenizer scans no further than this looking for the closing ;, so a stray & in prose costs a bounded look-ahead.

Statics

NAMED

Every named reference the HTML standard defines, sorted by name for binary search.

Functions

named

The text a named reference stands for, or None when the name is not one the standard defines (in which case the source text was never a reference and must survive as typed).