Nikolay Bachiyski:
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
Since the POT (and PO/MO) uses UTF-8, why can't we just use actual
Unicode characters rather than their HTML entities equivalent?
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.
This depends on the MIME type: In XHTML (application/xhtml+xml) only five
entities MUST be resolved: <, >, ", & and ' ('
should be avoided due to bad support in some HTML user agents). Any other
entity might be shown literal. Some older user agents (Opera 7, early
Gecko derivates) do exactly that.
So: If you don’t use real UTF-8, use numeric character references, eg.
… not ….
A translator needs a working knowledge of HTML anyway. Replacing or
adding verbose descriptions of entities isn't worth it.
Antithesis: A translator needs basic knowledge of character encoding
anyway. Finding and using UTF-8 capable software shouldn’t be so hard.
This is even mandatory for any language with an ISO-8859-1 incompatible
alphabet (russian, tamil etc.).
Thomas
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