ater than characters: &lt; &gt;</li>
<li>Single and double quotes: ‘ “</li>
<li>Dashes: -</li>
</ul>
</div></blockquote>
<p>This function ignores ampersands if they are part of existing numbered
character entities, e.g. &amp;#123;. Example:</p>
<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$string</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;&lt;p&gt;Here is a paragraph &amp; an entity (&amp;#123;).&lt;/p&gt;&#39;</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class=