glossary

Terms used in this wiki

entity

A case-sensitive sequence of ASCII letters, digits, or both, representing a special character in (X/HT)ML.
Examples: &, &, ⁰ ,⁰

Since version 1.4.0, HTML Tag can decode most of the entities in the HTML Living Standard (sometimes called “HTML 5”).

(Unicode) escape character

A case-insensitive sequence of hexadecimal digits, prefixed by one or more ASCII letters, representing a Unicode character.
Examples: \u2026, U+2014

By default, HTML Tag decodes escape characters in the format \u0000. Since version 1.4.2, the \u prefix can be customized by the user.

character escaping

In the context of regular expressions, “escaping” or “quoting” is a special syntax to indicate that a character represents itself, usually by prefixing the character with a backslash (\). See also https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_character#Programming_and_data_formats

caret

The visual indicator of the text insertion point in the editing window.

Usually a vertical bar (|) when “insert” mode is active (see INS in the lower right-hand corner of the status bar), e.g.,