Unclear: Character References for Control Characters

[fiveop]

I would have expected, that &#10; should be handled like an escaped line feed character. However, the implemention used by the dingus basically ignores it.

I cannot find text in the specification supporting either my assumption nor the exhibited behaviour.

[jgm]

It is treated exactly like an unescaped line feed character, per the spec.

All valid HTML entity references and numeric character references, except those occuring in code blocks and code spans, are recognized as such and treated as equivalent to the corresponding Unicode characters.

[fiveop]

Thank you and sorry.

[fiveop]

I reopen this issue, because I cannot reconcile Example 475 with HTML entity references being treated like unescaped characters:

[link](/url "title \""")

The entity reference occurs in the context of a link title and not plain text. Why are entity references lumped in with escaped characters in one case and with unescaped ones in the other?

[aidantwoods]

@jgm

It is treated exactly like an unescaped line feed character, per the spec.

Surely you mean an escaped or literal character. Otherwise, why isn't this a blockquote?

> hello

[mgeier]

I'm not sure, but this is probably related to my question When exactly should numeric character references be replaced?.

[jgm]

Perhaps we need to clarify this in the spec.

[mgeier]

@jgm I like your update to the spec, but I think there is still information missing, which I'm trying to add in #572.