Is there a phab ticket or gerrit patch for this change?  I'd like to look
it over.

It would be nice to allow language converter syntax inside the link
*title*, ie: [http://example.com -{en-uk:lift;en-us:elevator}]
 --scott

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everyone.
>
> Later today, I intend to make a change to the language converter
> system. The language converter system is used in a couple languages,
> most notably zh and sr, to interpret -{ in wikisyntax. Previously, -{
> }- syntax would work inside external links. Now you must put it
> outside external links.
>
> For example, previously you could do:
>
> [http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- mylink]
>
> now you must do:
>
> -{zh-cn: [http://foo.com mylink] ; zh-hk: [http://bar.com mylink] ;
> zh-tw:[http://baz.com my link] }-
>
> I'm hopeful this change will not be too disruptive. If you encounter
> any new weird behaviour with language converter please let me know.
>
> --
> Brian Wolff
>
> p.s. List of probably affected pages:
> * http://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/langconv/sr.txt
> * http://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/langconv/zh.txt
> * http://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/langconv/zhwiktionary.txt
>
> I don't believe anything outside of serbian wikipedia, chinese
> wikipedia, and chinese wiktionary will be affected.
>
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