Let character references through to the browser

Decoding them here instead would mean carrying every named reference
HTML defines, while the browser already knows them all.

1 file changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/extensions/test-about-render.lua b/tests/extensions/test-about-render.luaindex 236c61a..e84c854 100644--- a/tests/extensions/test-about-render.lua+++ b/tests/extensions/test-about-render.lua@@ -117,6 +117,15 @@ h.contains("an escaped hash starts no heading", out, "<p># not a heading</p>") out = render("README.md", "`a\\*b`") h.contains("code keeps its backslashes", out, "<code>a\\*b</code>") +out = render("README.md", "&copy; &#169; &#xA9; &amp;")+h.contains("character references pass through", out, "<p>&copy; &#169; &#xA9; &amp;</p>")++out = render("README.md", "AT&T & &#xZZ; &#12345678;")+h.contains("a bare ampersand is escaped", out, "<p>AT&amp;T &amp; &amp;#xZZ; &amp;#12345678;</p>")++out = render("README.md", "`&amp;`")+h.contains("code shows a reference as written", out, "<code>&amp;amp;</code>")+ out = render("README.md", "run `x < y` here") h.contains("inline code is escaped", out, "<code>x &lt; y</code>") 
diff --git a/tests/extensions/test-about-render.lua b/tests/extensions/test-about-render.lua
index 236c61a..e84c854 100644
--- a/tests/extensions/test-about-render.lua
+++ b/tests/extensions/test-about-render.lua
@@ -117,6 +117,15 @@ h.contains("an escaped hash starts no heading", out, "<p># not a heading</p>")
 out = render("README.md", "`a\\*b`")
 h.contains("code keeps its backslashes", out, "<code>a\\*b</code>")
 
+out = render("README.md", "&copy; &#169; &#xA9; &amp;")
+h.contains("character references pass through", out, "<p>&copy; &#169; &#xA9; &amp;</p>")
+
+out = render("README.md", "AT&T & &#xZZ; &#12345678;")
+h.contains("a bare ampersand is escaped", out, "<p>AT&amp;T &amp; &amp;#xZZ; &amp;#12345678;</p>")
+
+out = render("README.md", "`&amp;`")
+h.contains("code shows a reference as written", out, "<code>&amp;amp;</code>")
+
 out = render("README.md", "run `x < y` here")
 h.contains("inline code is escaped", out, "<code>x &lt; y</code>")