https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50296
Rastus Vernon <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #25 from Rastus Vernon <[email protected]> --- I agree with James Forrester's comment #0. Character input in particular languages should be possible, but through the universal language selector, and in all text inputs on the website. I think the ideal way to handle en dashes and em dashes would be to make "--" be replaced by the wikitext parser by an en dash (–), "---" by an em dash (—) and "----" by an horizontal bar (―). The current horizontal rule syntax would become "-----" (it would require one more hyphen-minus because the current one would be taken by the horizontal bar character). There would therefore become part of the syntax. DokuWiki does this for en dashes and em dashes (https://www.dokuwiki.org/wiki:syntax#text_to_html_conversions), but not the others. As I mentioned, this is what I think would be the ideal way to handle it. Practically, this is impossible because these sequences are already used in many pages for other purposes. An acceptable solution would, I believe, be to make the editor recognize those sequences and replace them automatically by the corresponding character. This would be reasonable in the VisualEditor and would be more efficient than putting a bar of characters under the edit box and hoping beginners will use it to insert dashes. However, since the sequence "--" is used in signatures on talk pages and possibly for other things in wikitext, it may be preferable to avoid doing these replacements in the source editor. It might be a good idea to add sequences of characters for producing similar characters. As long as the sequences are well chosen, problems should not arise frequently, and this could reduce considerably the typographical burden put on beginners. -- 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
