Hi,
You misunderstand me. These are only default settings for new users. You (and even new users) will be able to use both named and numeric entities by changing the Preserve Entities preferences. It is just that new empty documents in Sigil 0.9 will default to the xA0 char instead of nbsp so that it is generating technically correct code for both epub2 and epub3 type ebooks.
I was just trying to explain that html5 has moved away from non-xml named entities since they are an attack vector (previously you could create your own named entities that are in fact malicious by having them expand to yet another named entity to recursively use up memory). So as an ebook author getting to know some common numeric entities might prove useful for generating ebooks that must pass through epub3 validation (and it seems even epub2 validation for some ebook stores).
Hope I explained things better this time.
KevinH
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Originally Posted by Notjohn
It is to weep! Are there really people who can remember what those numeric entities MEAN?
Whenever I do a search for an entity, I always specify "named" in the Google line.
I hope you will alert us when this change goes into effect, so I can stop updating the software! I'm still using WordStar 7d (more recent than Lynx, tee hee), so I'm comfortable wearing old clothes.
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