XHTML5 and HTML4 character entities

Question

Does XHTML5 support character entities such as   and —. At work we can require specific software to access the admin side of the

Answer 1

My best advice is to not upgrade to HTML5 or XHTML5 until support for character entity names is provided.

Anyone who thinks that 〹 makes more sense than — needs a brain upgrade. Most people can't remember huge tables of numbers.

Those of us who have to remain with older operating systems to be compatible with existing scientific, real-time, or point-of-sale hardware (or government networks) can't just type the character or pick it from a list. It won't save correctly in the file.

The reason this has been imposed on us is that w3c no longer wants the expense of serving DTD files, so we must go back to the stone age.

Nothing like this that has been provided should ever be deprecated.