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Test Case Description for copy-entities

Purpose

Determine whether HTML entities are properly copied from web pages.

Initial Conditions

None.

Steps/Description

1. View the below-linked web page.
2. Copy its content.
3. Paste it into a text editor, such as WordPad (Windows) or BBEdit (Mac).

Expected Results

After step #3, the character entities should continue to display correctly when pasted out of the browser.

Link(s)

copy-entities

For further research: do we just support ISO 8879 or are there other entities that need to be copied?