MediaWiki is neglecting to expand certain character entity references, such as ✓.
There's a table of these in the Named character references section in the HTML spec, but it'd probably be easier to actually use the accompanying JSON file (even if that *is* generated from the HTML table for some strange reason).
This is not really good, MediaWiki doesn't allow to use some of the official defined HTML 5 entities, which should be working
Wikipedia should support current HTML (which it uses itself). No one would expect that a project that, according to it's Doctype Definition uses HTML 5.2, can interpret only HTML 4.01 named entities.
Generally speaking, "me too" comments do not help but contributed patches would be very welcome to see progress here. :)
Change 612932 had a related patch set uploaded (by C. Scott Ananian; owner: C. Scott Ananian):
[mediawiki/core@master] Sanitizer should use RemexHtml entity table, instead of its own
Change 621062 had a related patch set uploaded (by C. Scott Ananian; owner: C. Scott Ananian):
[mediawiki/services/parsoid@master] WIP: Use entity list from RemexHtml
Change 612932 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Sanitizer: use RemexHtml entity table, instead of its own
Change 621062 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/services/parsoid@master] Use entity list from RemexHtml
Change 622176 had a related patch set uploaded (by C. Scott Ananian; owner: C. Scott Ananian):
[mediawiki/vendor@master] Bump wikimedia/parsoid to v0.13.0-a7
Change 622176 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/vendor@master] Bump wikimedia/parsoid to v0.13.0-a7
@cscott: Hi, all related patches in Gerrit have been merged. Can this task be resolved (via Add Action... → Change Status in the dropdown menu), or is there more to do in this task? Asking as you are set as task assignee. Thanks in advance!
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