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Comment from the i18n review of: http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html-polyglot-20100624/ Comment 7 At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/1007-polyglot/ Editorial/substantive: E Tracked by: RI Location in reviewed document: 8. Named Entity References [http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html-polyglot-20100624/#named-entity-references] Comment: " For example, polyglot markup uses   instead of . " We would prefer your example to use the hexadecimal NER   rather than the decimal. See http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-charmod-20050215/#C048
This section now says: ]] For entities beyond the previous list, a polyglot document uses character references. For example, polyglot markup uses   instead of . Note that polyglot markup may use decimal values for escape characters (such as   in the previous example); however, the Character Model for the World Wide Web states that content should use the hexadecimal form of character escapes rather than the decimal form when there are both. [CHARMOD] [[ Thanks for your patience.