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

[Thomas Scholz]

Txopi:

> I think that symbols like » shouldn't be into the translation
> chains. If the coder want's to draw with the text, that shouldn't be
> translateable.

» (») and « («) are special cases: these are quotation marks  
in many languages. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemets

WordPress has a bad tradidtion of guillemet misuse. But the bug reports  
about this issue (http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9150 and  
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8536) were closed as Wontfix. Yahoo!  
does it too, so it can’t be wrong. :(

> I mean, instead of this PHP code:
>    <?php _e('Login &raquo;'); ?>
>
> It should be like this:
>    <?php _e('Login'); ?> &raquo;

Yes, that’s true. Amen.

> There are cases when raquo should be inside the translatable string?

Of course, when they’re used correctly in the target language:

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> About the other fancy characters, i'm sorry but i don't have a formed
> opinion.

UTF-8 knows no fancy characters. » (U+00BB) has a lower code point than ы  
(U+044B). Should the russian language files use escaped characters? I  
don’t think so.

Thomas

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