TYPO3 Core

The entity wasn't escaped by Mantis, so here it is again:
& shy;

Here it is! The patch adds the soft hyphen just before the n dash. Applies to current SVN trunk.

The patch works fine, but the entity isn't saved or shown when inserted into the RTE. Is there some more configuration needed?

Are you sure? This character is very, very shy. It is not shown in the RTE unless it is the last character on a line. This is the very definition of this character.

This is true in wysiwyg mode as well as in textmode because even the textarea is html, isn't it?

The rendering is the same on the frontend, but the "end of the line" may not be the same as in the RTE, depending on the width of the window.

Looking at the record in a utf-8 BE with phpmyAdmin, you can see a strange character at the position of the shy entity.

You're right, my fault. Haven't tested it thoroughly enough. So +1 from me :)
Will this patch make it to the 4.4 branch as well?

And finally: which email address should I use for the PayPal donation?

ok. Perhaps it may be viewed as a bug "Missing entity..." and moved to 4.4.

Many thanks for your sponsorship!

Committed to SVN TYPO3core trunk (revision 9199) and branch TYPO3_4-4 (revision 9200).

Thx a lot for getting this into 4.4! I've just send you your money via PayPal.

Thanks again to both of you for your sponsorship!