393533 - "&euro" is displayed as the EURO_CURRENCY_SIGN not as "&euro"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 278404

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Rostislav Svoboda]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.23 (Windows NT 5.1; U; fr)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

"€" should produce: EURO_CURRENCY_SIGN 
"&euro" should produce: "&euro"
or am I wrong?

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

The semicolon is normally required, yes. But we also accept a character entity reference without a semicolon, for IE compatibility. The problem is that a lot of websites are incorrect, and they kept filing bugs because our display was different from IE.

See http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#entities
"Note. In SGML, it is possible to eliminate the final ";" after a character
reference in some cases (e.g., at a line break or immediately before a tag). In
other circumstances it may not be eliminated (e.g., in the middle of a word). We
strongly suggest using the ";" in all cases to avoid problems with user agents
that require this character to be present."

For IE compatibility, we're even less strict. A space will also stop the token.

If you really like "&euro", then you should use "&euro".