bug#40794: 26.3; HTML entities ☆ and ★ (inter alia) are not parsed by libxml-parse-html-region

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de> writes:

> (Prologue: This bug showed up in the "ALT" attribute of an
> "IMG" element of an HTML mail in Gnus.  I am reasonably cer-
> tain that this stems from libxml-parse-html-region and
> should be fixed there, but there may be more prudent solu-
> tions.)

[...]

> These should instead yield "ä" (228), "☆" (9734) and
> "★" (9733).
>
> lisp/leim/quail/sgml-input.el seems to contain the necessary
> data for &star; and &starf; that could probably be fed to
> libxml.

As far as I can tell, libxml2 doesn't take a list of entities as an
input when parsing HTML?  I may have missed something...

Hm, a bit of googling shows http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-entities.html
and there is apparently a way to tell libxml2 about further entities?

But I think this all sounds more like a libxml2 than an Emacs bug,
really?

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