HTML 5, Why Add Thousands Named Character References. 2012
Why the HTML standard added Thousands of Named Character References to HTML 5
around 2011, the html 5 team WHATWG added thousands of named character references (aka character entities) to html 5.
why they do that? seems silly because you can use unicode characters directly. adding thousands named character references creates bloat.
AI answers that, because they are just syncing it with existing XML.
why do the html team add thousands of named html entities to html 5
