[wp-polyglots] Translation Guidelines / HTML Character Entities

[Nikolay Bachiyski]

2007/9/4, Francesc Hervada-Sala <francesc at hervada.org>:
> Hi Kimmo and Nikolai,
>
> thank you for your answers! :-)
>
> I find your plugin for character conversion fantastic. However I did not
> mean that I need a conversion for my personal blog, but I was concerned
> with a localization appproach that could fit the needs of all users.
>
> I still find that there is a need of clarification, because the
> guidelines say "all should be plain UTF-8" and the majority of
> translations do escape special characters as html entities.

Here we should make a distinction between languages, which have only
several accented characters and languages, in which almost all
characters are outside ASCII.

The majority of translators of the latter languages do not tend to
escape non-ASCII chars, because they will have to convert nearly all
of their texts in entities. However, in cases like yours it isn't as
important if you use entities or you use utf8 characters.

Happy translating,
Nikolay.