Cannot close HTML comments in WordPress page/post

[eharris]

WordPress' HTML editor for creating pages and posts does not allow "-->", converting it instead to "&8211;>". This is fine for the visual editor, but the HTML editor should not make such substitutions, as it means that it becomes impossible to comment out sections on pages for whatever reason The editor does NOT make the same change to "<!--", so the comment successfully opens, but it does not close, creating formatting problems. This has been documented for 2 years on the WordPress support forums:
​http://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-comments-not-post-comments-in-pages-038-posts-fail
​http://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-comment-destroys-formatting

[SergeyBiryukov]

I have encountered this myself.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Example post text to reproduce:

<!-- Sample list
<ul>
	<li>Sample item</li>
</ul> -->

Output:

<!-- Sample list
<ul>
	<li>Sample item</li>
</ul> –>

[SergeyBiryukov]

#8912