wp-includes/kses.php:1957Converts and fixes HTML entities.
$contentstring$contextstringoptional'html'stringfunction wp_kses_normalize_entities( $content, $context = 'html' ) { // Disarm all entities by converting & to & $content = str_replace( '&', '&', $content ); // Change back the allowed entities in our list of allowed entities. if ( 'xml' === $context ) { $content = preg_replace_callback( '/&([A-Za-z]{2,8}[0-9]{0,2});/', 'wp_kses_xml_named_entities', $content ); } else { $content = preg_replace_callback( '/&([A-Za-z]{2,8}[0-9]{0,2});/', 'wp_kses_named_entities', $content ); } $content = preg_replace_callback( '/&#(0*[1-9][0-9]{0,6});/', 'wp_kses_normalize_entities2', $content ); $content = preg_replace_callback( '/&#[Xx](0*[1-9A-Fa-f][0-9A-Fa-f]{0,5});/', 'wp_kses_normalize_entities3', $content ); return $content;}Introduced in 1.0.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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src/wp-includes/kses.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.