What about the direction-reverse stuff in the the texts? Okay, these are probably needed in Arab/Hebrew wikis, but can't they be a bit confusing in the article sources?
Marco 2008/10/5 Ilmari Karonen nospam@vyznev.net
Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Tei oscar.vives@gmail.com wrote:
Heres is a script that replace normal whitespace with one of the whitespaces supported by UTF8 ( Others are
          ​  ).
I have made a few vandalization test here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tei/lalaland
What do you guys think? could this be a problem? You can break links like [[Mr Thonson]] replacing it by [[Mr Thonson]]
We don't want to ban all Unicode whitespace. Some of it is useful, which is why it's in Unicode. :) For the specific case of titles, see bug 1414:
On the English Wikipedia we've (actually, I did) set the TitleBlacklist extension to block those. We also block the bidirectional override characters which can be even more problematic. (Nothing as fun as an invisible character that makes all following text render right to left.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Titleblacklist
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