# File lib/maruku/output/to_html.rb, line 845
  def to_html_entity
    entity_name = self.entity_name

    if entity = MaRuKu::Out::EntityTable.instance.entity(entity_name)
      entity_name = entity.html_num
    end

    if entity_name.kind_of? Integer
      # Convert numeric entities to unicode characters
      xtext([entity_name].pack('U*'))
    else
      "&#{entity_name};"
    end
  end