Escaping used to represent:
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Syntax-significant characters (i.e. & for '&')
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Characters that cannot be represented in some encoding
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HTML/XML:
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Numeric character references (NCRs): "
é
" = "é"
Predefined entities (HTML only): "é" = "é"
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CSS:
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"\E9 " or "\0000E9" = "é"