There are also these discussions at https://lists.apache.org/[email protected]:2018-9 :

"HTML entities"

and

**
"[VOTE] Update our documentation building tool chain"

I then migrated french doc toward UTF-8 without a problem and could forget HTML entities.



Le 21/02/2020 à 17:26, Mike Rumph a écrit :
Found a bug report related to this which was last changed on 2018-08-06:
Bug 57878 - Using UTF-8 for all languages, and avoiding html-entities.
- https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57878

Mike

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 2:23 PM André Malo <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    Rich Bowen wrote:
    > On 1/9/20 2:14 AM, André Malo wrote:
    > > If you'd ask me, I'd rather kill XML/XSLT entirely, as the
    promises both
    > > for Java and XML/XSLT clearly don't hold anymore. However this
    also
    > > requires time and effort...
    >
    > Revisiting a thread that somewhat died out ... I would also be
    very much
    > in favor of moving away from XML/Docbook, and towards something
    > Markdown-based.

    Markdown is not powerful enough (by design, but well). I'd suggest
    restructured text instead. It needs some getting used to, but it
    should be
    able to map all features we need and/or want.

    Cheers,
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