On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, David Gerard wrote:
Ashar Voultoiz (hashar@twenkill.net) [050403 07:25]:
Magnus Manske wrote:
Otherwise, with (n) wiki systems, *at least* (n-1) will have to make changes, if not all of them. From what I can tell, "**" is used for "bold", so any of you really want to change from "'''"? ;-)
''' and '' cause troubles when the language use ' . In french we might want to say : l'''étoile'' . Parser will bug on that one : it starts bold then start italic.
It's bad enough in English. You end up with either tortured syntax or tortured use of <nowiki>. Any language with apostrophes will have this problem.
The 1.4 parser seems much better on this than the previous ones, and I am removing lots of now useless <nowiki> from lots of pages in italian. Things like l'''italia'' work correctly, producing an "l", an apostrophe and a word in italics. The only cases when <nowiki> is still necessary are when there are multiple instances of ''', '' and ' on a single line and parsers gets confused.
Alfio