Why is “&reg” being rendered as “®” without the bounding semicolon

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Although valid character references always have a semicolon at the end, some invalid named character references without a semicolon are, for backward compatibility reasons, recognized by modern browsers’ HTML parsers.

Either you know what that entire list is, or you follow the HTML5 rules for when & is valid without being escaped (e.g. when followed by a space) or otherwise always escape & as & whenever in doubt.

For reference, the full list of named character references that are recognized without a semicolon is:

AElig, AMP, Aacute, Acirc, Agrave, Aring, Atilde, Auml, COPY, Ccedil,
ETH, Eacute, Ecirc, Egrave, Euml, GT, Iacute, Icirc, Igrave, Iuml, LT,
Ntilde, Oacute, Ocirc, Ograve, Oslash, Otilde, Ouml, QUOT, REG, THORN,
Uacute, Ucirc, Ugrave, Uuml, Yacute, aacute, acirc, acute, aelig,
agrave, amp, aring, atilde, auml, brvbar, ccedil, cedil, cent, copy,
curren, deg, divide, eacute, ecirc, egrave, eth, euml, frac12, frac14,
frac34, gt, iacute, icirc, iexcl, igrave, iquest, iuml, laquo, lt,
macr, micro, middot, nbsp, not, ntilde, oacute, ocirc, ograve, ordf,
ordm, oslash, otilde, ouml, para, plusmn, pound, quot, raquo, reg,
sect, shy, sup1, sup2, sup3, szlig, thorn, times, uacute, ucirc,
ugrave, uml, uuml, yacute, yen, yuml

However, it should be noted that only when in an attribute value, named character references in the above list are not processed as such by conforming HTML5 parsers if the next character is a = or a alphanumeric ASCII character.

For the full list of named character references with or without ending semicolons, see here.

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