[wp-polyglots] Unicode characters instead of entities in POT

[Xavier Borderie]

Just saw this ticket being closed by Nikolay:
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7099

Rather than open another ticket for my suggestion, I'd like to launch
a discussion here first...

Since the POT (and PO/MO) uses UTF-8, why can't we just use actual
Unicode characters rather than their HTML entities equivalent?
For instance, instead of "Chrunchung…", we'd have "Crunching…",
"Send to editor »" would be "Send to editor »", etc.
Is there something (non-supportive browser, maybe?) that would prevent
this from working, and warrants entities?

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Xavier Borderie