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Originally Posted by Valloric
That doesn't do what you think it does. An HTML character reference is merely a convenient way of specifying the use of a character that is not easily written using ASCII alone. Basically, aside from comfort and user preference, there is no difference in using a character reference instead of a "real" UTF-8 character.
You still need a font with the required glyph to render a non-ASCII char.
There is no "HTML" font.
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I think what he's saying is that all of the readers out there that we care about (sony, iPad, kindle, etc.) have a font that can render the spade, heart, club and diamond symbols (or trademark, copyright, etc.). So we're pretty safe there -- most of them already have a default font native to the device that will display these characters. And their "font substitution" algorithm actually works properly
So for the time being, we don't lose anything by not embedding the fonts.