Replacing the HTML entity by the actual Unicode character

Thanks for the heads-up. This should be fixed now.

I'm not alone who was trapped, you can find other languages where translators just typed exactly the code that was displayed in the Translate UI (and did not use the MediaWiki editor to create/modify or review these messages).

For example in Bokmal Norwegian:

There are other messages using {slot} or similar in the MediaWiki API doc to translate. A bug in a translated message at this level however is not critical, it does not affect the Mediawiki parser, or the API itself (as used by bots) or the API portal app (with query assistants), it only affects its translated doc pages (referenced by the API portal application) which may eventually not render (in fact not). So the only thing that is affected is your new Beta Terminology gadget which shows things incorrectly: the gadget should not even be concerned by these inclusions of "var/code" in these messages as they are explicitly not translatable, you should still fix this new gadget).

There are also other message groups using HTML escapes in their source messages (but until now this did not cause any issue for these target projects, or the project maintainers have tuned their own import/export tools to properly escape/unescape what was needed and they tested it, so that actual translators would not have to worry about this very tricky technical detail that most of them will always have dificulties to understand when they edit translations or review them).

It is possible also that these messages were initially translated before the source in English was modified (so before the very recent deployment of the beta version of the Terminology gadget, that most users still don't use as is is still in the list of beta features, which should be disabled by default).

The rendering bug for messages with HTML escapes was still in effect, independantly of this new gadget, or the recent change in the source English message (which casued these messages to become recently fuzzy, and then all proposed to the Translate review interface, which is used FIRST before even editing an isolated message by the wikitext editor).

I suggest that the "/qqq" page contains a warning saying that characters represented by HTML escapes (starting by an ampersand and terminated by colons) must remain as is (provided that the Translate UI properly shows these escapes), including the opening brace given as an example.

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