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GH-25: HTML 4 browsers don't support ' entity
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See https://stackoverflow.com/a/2083770 which refers to this spec:

> C.16. The Named Character Reference '
>       https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_16
>
> The named character reference ' (the apostrophe, U+0027) was
> introduced in XML 1.0 but does not appear in HTML. Authors should
> therefore use ' instead of ' to work as expected in HTML
> 4 user agents.
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sunaku committed Jul 22, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ trap 'exit 44' USR1 # exit with a nonzero status when no results found
function escape(xml) {
gsub("&", "\\&", xml)
gsub("\"", "\\"", xml)
gsub("\047", "\\'", xml)
gsub("\047", "\\'", xml) # https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_16
gsub("<", "\\&lt;", xml)
gsub(">", "\\&gt;", xml)
return xml
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