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Originally Posted by sjchase
I have been editing my book and adding the full html character codes for things like ellipses, right and left quotes, em and en dashes, etc. They appear to display correctly in book view, but in code view they vanish into their "real" vs. code form.
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AFAIK, this is a special "feature" of Sigil 0.7.4. Sigil will automatically change named entities to their Unicode equivalents, whenever text is changed in Book View mode, even if the Open and Save Clean Source options are disabled.
The only way to avoid this behavior is to change text only in Code View mode or to downgrade to an earlier Sigil version that doesn't exhibit this behavior.
If you only use a limited number of named entities you could also use the
Saved Searches feature to define a group that contains Unicode characters and their named entity equivalents and then use this group to replace Unicode characters with named entities.
However, since named entities are not required in XHTML, this would only make sense, if you prefer named entities for proofreading purposes.