On 6/19/06, Ilmari Karonen <nospam(a)vyznev.net> wrote:
And I still say we should just use ''.
What we want _is_ two
consecutive apostrophes -- we just don't want them _parsed_ by the wiki
engine. Thus, they need to be escaped, which is exactly what ''
does.
Or, as pointed out, ''
I was thinking about possible changes to the MediaWiki parsing engine
to accommodate this better (like changing the reinterpretation of ''''
from bold+' to ''), but I don't think many of them are good. The main
confusion with suggestions like yours is being able to easily talk
about the category etc in question:
* Is the name of the category "actually" foo''bar and it just
happens to display as foo''bar ?
* Is the name of the category "actually" foo''bar, and we put a page
in that category with the hackish wikimarkup [[Category:foo''bar]]
?
Actually, on the MediaWiki question, it *would* theoretically be
possible to just ignore all attempted formatting within [[Article]] or
[[Category:]] links wouldn't it? Since we don't support formatting in
page names (and are unlikely to with that syntax anytime soon), it
seems conceivable that [[Category:Foo''bar]] should take that name
literally and not attempt to interpret it as italics, which wouldn't
work anyway...
Steve