Link markup does not recognize HTML Symbol entities about sugarcube-2

[tmedwards]

From the link markup documentation:

SugarCube's link markup consists of a required Link component and optional Text and Setter components. The Link and Text components may be either plain text or any valid TwineScript expression, […]

The link markup's text component has never been treated as HTML, thus HTML named entities and numeric references will not work.

Changing that in v2 would be a breaking change for very little benefit.

If you need such characters to appear within links, either:

• Use the <<link> macro.
• Use the HTML <a> tag.
• Use the literal character—e.g., [[Literal characters ©™|…]].

[selden]

The underlying issue for me is that I sometimes want multi-word text components not to be broken across multiple lines on the screen. I had hoped to be able to use &nbsp; between them. Fortunately, it seems that using the HTML token pair<nobr>...</nobr> around the link markup does what I need.

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