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1. character referenceComputing
Wikipedia definition
2. Character entity referenceIn the markup languages SGML and HTML, a character entity reference is a reference to a particular kind of named entity that has been predefined or explicitly declared in a Document Type Definition (DTD). The "replacement text" of the entity consists of a single character from the Universal Character Set/Unicode. The purpose of a character entity reference is to provide a way to refer to a universal character in a limited character encoding, like ASCII.
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