> -----Original Message----- > From: Mitar [mailto:mmi...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 1:53 PM > To: trac-dev@googlegroups.com > Cc: Noah Kantrowitz; Eirik Schwenke > Subject: Re: [Trac-dev] Trac 12 HTML nits > > Hi! > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Dmitry Samersoff <d...@samersoff.net> > wrote: > > Which notation trac developers chose doesn't really matter - e.g. > > \uNNNNN is rather common (not HTML specific and ) syntax to enter > > unicode character. > > I should really be against having something like that in default Trac > wiki syntax. Plugins are for that to enable additional special meaning > to characters. Even now there is sometimes surprise when something > turns some formatting on (probably the best example is when you write > 12^5 and then you see that everything afterwards goes up - try to > explain this to somebody who just started using the wiki, there is no > problem of explaining, but less of explaining there is, better it is). > And please, how many people do know unicode numbers of characters? You > already have to look it up. And once you look it up, you can also just > copy-paste it. Please leave such developer-oriented syntax out of > default wiki syntax.
Yeah, I'm going to agree that that syntax is not at all common outside of programming, just like entities are not common outside HTML. If a character isn't on your keyboard/IME, it strikes me as odd that you need it all that frequently. --Noah -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Development" group. To post to this group, send email to trac-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to trac-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-dev?hl=en.
