bug#40794: 26.3; HTML entities ☆ and ★ (inter alia) are not parsed by libxml-parse-html-region

[Stefan Kangas]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I had a look at the libxml2 sources.  The logic isn't really explained,
> but apparently they include all the <255-value entities, and then a
> selected number of the other entities (about 160 of them).
>
> I have no idea what the logic behind this is...  perhaps they've just
> forgotten to add the new ones?  Which makes me think that this is really
> a libxml2 bug, and you should report it there instead.

Agreed.  Tim, could you please report this to the libxml2 developers?