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Feedback by Addison Phillips from W3C I18N group: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-tt/2015Mar/0063.html I18N comment: https://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/430 4.3.2 WebVTT cue text http://www.w3.org/TR/webvtt1/#dfn-webvtt-cue-amp-escape There are escape sequences defined for six Unicode characters (&, <, >, LRM, RLM, and NBSP), but not a general purpose escape mechanism for characters. It's generally recommended that character escapes be provided so that difficult to enter or edit sequences can be introduced using a plain text editor. E.g. something like HTML's 𒎫 syntax. Escape sequences are particularly useful for invisible or ambiguous Unicode characters, including zero-width spaces, soft-hyphens, various bidi controls, mongolian vowel separators, etc. For advice on use of escapes in markup, but that is mostly generalisable to other formats, see http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-escapes
Thanks for the new links. There's an older issue for this which I'm making this a dupe of: bug 23867. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 23867 ***
Addison, Would you mind adding a note to https://github.com/w3c/webvtt/pull/253 whether you're ok with it resolving this bug?