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

[Xavier Borderie]

> There are many editors, which don't support either showing or entering
> these characters. Browsers are a lot smarter. They revert to a basic
> font if the current one can't show the character and don't rely only
> on UTF-8 representation.

Understood.
So, would that mean that I, as a translator, can at leisure replace
entities with actual characters for my own PO/MO?


> A translator needs a working knowledge of HTML anyway.

Alas it's not always the case - but that's another subject entirely.
(I work at an online service, and we've had a couple issues recently
with a translator not knowing HTML, and thus breaking his entire
localized version just because he didn't know what an HTML link is...)


> Replacing or
> adding verbose descriptions of entities isn't worth it.

Totally agree on that, my point wasn't to re-open the ticket :)




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Xavier Borderie