1160466 - Add highlighting for some HTML entities in the editor ( )

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, enhancement)

Description

[Julien G]

What problem would this feature solve?
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It would be possible to write articles that would be correct regarding typography (e.g. using   or …).
This feature is available on SUMO and allows contributors to see if typography is correct.

Who has this problem?
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Core contributors to MDN

How do you know that the users identified above have this problem?
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We compared SUMO and MDN UI while a locasprint. SUMO users can guarantee that   are used when they need to in some locales. On MDN, I sometimes see   used in code example where they shouldn't be and I cannot easily add   where it would need to be (according to typographic rules of my locale)

How are the users identified above solving this problem now?
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They go to source mode to manually add entities (which is time-consuming since it's impossible to only use a keystroke for the character, one has to type the HTML code for the entity)

Do you have any suggestions for solving the problem? Please explain in detail.
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I think tuning CKEditor for displaying  , … and maybe other entities in rich text editing would be OK.

Is there anything else we should know?
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Comment 1

[Julien G]

Attachment: Example of the feature in SUMO

This screenshot shows how SUMO handles this. The contributor editing can fix typography while using the editor.

Comment 2

[Justin Crawford [:hoosteeno] [:jcrawford]]

Sheppy is going to explore using a CKEditor for visible whitespace.

Comment 3

[Justin Crawford [:hoosteeno] [:jcrawford]]

* a CKEditor plugin

Comment 4

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

We also need to see \u200B (Zero-width spaces). Some users add these (just spend 10 minutes to understand why the macro was broken, I thought initially of a special kind of 'tick').

Comment 5

[BMO Automation]

MDN Web Docs' bug reporting has now moved to GitHub. From now on, please file content bugs at https://github.com/mdn/sprints/issues/ and platform bugs at https://github.com/mdn/kuma/issues/.