[dmd-internals] named character entities, the spec, and dmd

[Walter Bright]

On 7/30/2012 11:02 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Monday, July 30, 2012 22:51:58 Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> Thoughts? I'm perfectly willing to go and create whatever pull requests are
>> necessary for dmd and d-programming-language.org to fix this, but we need a
>> decision of some kind on how we want to proceed.
> By the way, it does look like some named entities in HTML 5 are two code
> points in length rather than just one, and dmd does not support those (and I
> don't know how it could given that a named entity can be used in a character
> literal as well as a string literal), so we'll need to say that we don't
> support those regardless. But that's easy enough to do if we went with the
> approach of saying in the D spec that we followed the HTML 5 spec - you just
> say that we support the HTML 5 list of named character entities which are a
> single code point. But it _does_ mean that we have to say more than that we
> follow the HTML 5 spec for named character entities.
>

Simply say that we support the HTML 5 spec. We can get the two code point ones 
to work.