Toxaris said:
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Why do you want to substitute the special characters to named entities?
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In my case, it is a mixture of what DiapDealer replied
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When it comes to typographic quotes (single and double) and apostrophes I can see the desire to distinguish, with entities,
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and the wish to be able to easily find and replace my *really special* characters, such as those fleurons I mentioned above from the "private usage area." When you are using entities like
& # xf021; and & # xf029; and & # 61477;
it helps to be able to see the actual codes instead of just a generic missing-glyph character, when I want to replace one or more of those with a different decorative character.
Not all "special character" entities convert automatically to the actual character if they depend on a special or embedded font that is not availabe to the code editor.
PS-- And I *still* wish we could search in book view, like the old versions. It was the fastest simplest way to find stray straight-quote marks that fell in the text outside of tags. Now you have to mess around with regex to hunt them down.
