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In article <459C188E.1000408@a...> you write: >I think it is confusing to speak in terms of escaping, >because it is used in opposite meaning of what it originally meant. Originally, but not any more. They changed the language while you were looking the other way. >With >a numeric character reference, you are not escaping a literal character, >you are using a different method to represent it: in just the same way >that \n is not a character escape, is neither. And here we have the proof: it is now quite common to describe \n as a way of escaping linefeed. A more historically consistent interpretation would be to say that &#...; is an escape sequence that changes the meaning of the 10 contained in it, so that it means character number 10 rather than "10" itself. -- Richard -- "Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.
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