> Do not use entity references
That's surprising. They've saved me many times when files are opened and re-saved in different editors, from losing an accent or an em-dash halfway down the page where it's rarely noticed...
That's surprising. They've saved me many times when files are opened and re-saved in different editors, from losing an accent or an em-dash halfway down the page where it's rarely noticed...
And my point is that the UTF-8 rule is not always followed, because source code gets passed around via e-mail, copied from browsers, edited in a console, saved with Notepad, and so on. Ideally file content would only ever be touched by source code editors configured only to ever operate in UTF-8 mode, but in the real world with real development teams and new interns, that is an impossible thing to ask.
At my last job, I made sure all accented characters in source code were only ever written with entity references, and we went from having weekly problems with accents somewhere on the site, to almost never.
I always have major problems with pretty quotes breaking when copying from GoogleDocs to Netbeans.
"That's how" becomes "That’s how"