Hello! Are special characters no longer supported in the (plugin.xml)? Characters like 
fail verification in the latest verifier (388), showing the error: “Invalid plugin descriptor ‘description’. The plugin description must start with Latin characters and have at least 40 characters.” Works perfectly in verifier with 379 version
Has anything changed in this regard?
Do we need to apply workaround, like using HTML tags?
Hi,
if my memory is correct, the plugin verifier enforced the detection of non-Latin characters in plugin’s description. Unfortunately, that means you cannot use special characters like emojis, etc. This change is recent.
There is a discussion on that, but I don’t remember if this is on Discourse or Youtrack. AFAIK, I can only say there is no plan (for now) to allow a subset of non-Latins characters while blocking non-English characters like Chinese kanji, in the first 40 characters.
It seems that this issue is showing only for the first characters. Even entities such as ✅ do not pass verification process when placed within the first 40 characters of description. I couldn’t find any information about it, thanks for explanation.