Replacing the HTML entity by the actual Unicode character

But then there also remains the additional bug in the Translate UI, showing things differently than what is expected (see the screenshot above): HTML escapes present in the source message are passed as is, and silently/automatically replaced by their *equivalent* in HTML when they are rendered by any browser.

If the source message uses any HTML escape, they should be also HTML escaped to render the source message, as well as in the translation (just like when editing a page with the MediaWiki wikitext editor)! However these escapes won't be displayed anywhere else (e.g. when transcluding the messages in any other wiki pages).

The Translate UI should at least HTLM-escape the following basic characters for safety when rendering the source messages (and the translated ones when they are shown in the list of messages of the UI):

  • & as &
  • < as &lt;
  • > as &gt;

And some tests must also be added for how to prefill the content of the editable input box, and how to parser and store it in the translated message page (it should use the same rules as those used by the Mediawiki editor), to make sure that the transform is safe and bijective/reversible (editing, saving as is, then reediting should not alter the content).

Verdy p (talk)‎19:56, 16 February 2022
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