https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50296
James Forrester <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|Unprioritized |Lowest Status|NEW |ASSIGNED CC| |[email protected] Component|General |Editing Tools Assignee|[email protected] |[email protected] Summary|VisualEditor: special |VisualEditor: Provide a |character support |character insertion tool --- Comment #1 from James Forrester <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #0) > The VisualEditor doesn't currently have a mechanism for inserting special > characters - while a lot of them are unnecessary (~~~~ for example), things > like en and emdashes can be quite important for content. Character insertion is, in general, the responsibility of your browser/operating system (same as spell check, IME and other general editing tools). Where your local OS fails, we have a 'standard' of providing general tools to let you get OS-level tools (most notably, ULS), rather than one-off "insert a bunch of random characters" micro-tools. MediaWiki has given people tools to insert random characters primarily because they do special things, and we've given up on users being able to magically know them (like ~~~~ or {{DEFAULTSORT:}}). They're all examples of system design failure. The fact that we have extended the metaphor to give "helpful" characters that users can trivially type themselves isn't a great reason to create it from scratch. I'm not dead-set against this, but it feels like a clunky failure. :-( -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
