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8.5 Named character references http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110525/named-character-references.html#named-character-references WG Approved: Yes This is via Yasin Hınıslıoğlu, who writes about character assignments for ⟨ and ⟩... [[ In the html 4 specification, which is here: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html above values declared are as follow, &rang: u+2329 utf8: E2 8C AA &lang: u+232A utf8: E2 8C A9 Contrary in html 5 specification, which is here: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/named-character-references.html, same named entities are declared as below ⟩ U+027E9 &lang: U+027E8 I checked whole character set defined in html 5 and only these two are different. ]] Please correct these assignments.
(In reply to comment #0) This is not a bug. The change is deliberate, and in tune with the W3C Recommendation: "XML Entity Definitions for Characters" See: http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xml-entity-names-20100401/#diff-xhtml1 Please close the bug.
Thanks for the clarification.
Closing. I18N is satisfied that this is invalid.