t;
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<h2><a name="h-24.4">24.4</a> <a name="misc">Character entity references for
markup-significant and internationalization characters</a></h2>

<p>The character entity references in this section are for escaping
markup-significant characters (these are the same as those in HTML 2.0 and
3.2), for denoting spaces and dashes. Other characters in this section apply to
internationalization issues such as the disambiguation of bidirectional text
(see the section on <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/ht