Is it OK to use UTF-8 characters instead of entities?

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Subject: Is it OK to use UTF-8 characters instead of entities?
From: Tapio Lehtonen <tale@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:32:02 +0300
Message-id: <[🔎] 20090916083202.GA13333@iki.fi>
Reply-to: tapio.lehtonen@IKI.FI

I'm translating to Finnish Debian Release Notes. I'm also testing
using enchant and voikko to do proofreading. Now for example language
names written with XML entities cause problems, because it gets split
into parts and proofreader frowns upon those pieces. For example

  gud&zcaron;arati

becomes gud and arati, which are no good words. 

If I write it as

  gudžarati

it stays as only one word, which I can add to my list of OK words.

If that is OK, only problem is to find a font to use with Emacs22 that
shows all these characters.

-- 
Tapio Lehtonen
tapio.lehtonen@iki.fi
http://www.iki.fi/tapio.lehtonen

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