https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18443
Summary: auto-insert of whitespace
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Problem:
There are several places where (thin) non-breaking spaces should be inserted,
e.g., between numbers and units. Of course, there exist different spacing rules
in different countries.
Up to now, inserting thin spaces still leads to problems: "nbsp" is generally
too large, "thinsp" and "U+202f" won't be displayed in the wanted way using
opera and so on; see e.g.
[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Typographie_(Zwischenr%C3%A4ume)#Browser-Unterst.C3.BCtzung]
(german).
There are possibilities to display thin non-breaking spaces by using some
html/css tricks, see
[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmales_Leerzeichen#.C3.9Cbergangsl.C3.B6sungen].
But that would complicate the source of articles too much.
Solution:
At
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fragen_zur_Wikipedia/Archiv/2009/Woche_01#.26nbsp.3B
(german, but with php source-code) the idea was given to use (localized)
regexps for automatically inserting of whitespace in some cases. With this
modification we could easily auto-insert even sophisticated things like
[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmales_Leerzeichen#.C3.9Cbergangsl.C3.B6sungen]
without obfuscating the article source code.
But:
Maybe such a thing would slow down the parsing of wikitext, so I guess it would
be the best to implement the idea at test-wiki first. Somebody should profile
the parsing after those changes. I could help in generating some fast regexps.
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