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		jwilk on June 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Update: U+237C ⍼ &Angzarr; There's also "&semi;" standing for ";", which makes even less sense to me.

Izkata on June 18, 2023 | [–]

To escape both special characters if you wanted to display "&semi;" to the user?

marlin on June 18, 2023 | [–]

In order to encode the ; as a character, when ; is being used as a separator.

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