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Asked: 2026-05-11T20:51:40+00:00

Why are HTML character entities necessary? What good are they? I don’t see the

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Why are HTML character entities necessary? What good are they? I don’t see the point.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Two main things.

    1. They let you use characters that are not defined in a current charset. E.g., you can legally use ASCII as the charset, and still include arbitrary Unicode characters thorugh entities.
    2. They let you quote characters that HTML gives special meaning to, as Simon noted.
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