On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 16:05, Xavier Borderie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
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. A translator needs a working knowledge of HTML anyway. Replacing or adding verbose descriptions of entities isn't worth it. Happy translating, Nikolay. _______________________________________________ wp-polyglots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-polyglots
