Spec: https://w3c.github.io/webvtt/#consume-an-html-character-reference (Changed in https://github.com/w3c/webvtt/pull/253) Test: http://w3c-test.org/webvtt/parsing/cue-text-parsing/tests/entities.html
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*** Bug 254889 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
My Bug 254889 Comment #2 it seems Darin has worked on that in 2015.
And this is the equivalent bug on Firefox https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1395924
Potential Blink Commit to merge - https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/80ccfaf557f5ad07e5de8bcc08e1aba84190b2a0
Chris has reused the entity parser in another context recently and might know how to tackle this. Though given that Firefox doesn't support this I'm not sure it's high priority.
Pull request: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/19879
Committed 270240@main (023c54054092): <https://commits.webkit.org/270240@main> Reviewed commits have been landed. Closing PR #19879 and removing active labels.