Stefan Schweizer added the comment:
I do not think that the semicolon can be omitted here, because it is not at a
line break or immediately before a tag, it is in the middle of a paragraph.
Anyway, I guess I have to live with the decision in issue500073.
Also I could not find an
New submission from Stefan Schweizer :
HTMLParser should only handle entity references that are terminated with a
semicolon. I know that the semicolon can be omitted in some cases
(http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#h-5.3) and that some browsers are more
tolerant, but the following
