Eric Pierce wrote:
Also, there's some ongoing disagreement about
"correct" quote usage: several users like to replace
standard ASCII apostrophes with their lsquo/rsquo HTML
counterparts, which seriously uglifies the wikitext.
Of course this has been discussed before, but the reason nothing has
been done about it is that the issue almost automatically solves itself
when the English Wikipedia (and all other remaining Latin-1 wikis)
finally switches to UTF-8. Once that is done, we can introduce some code
that will replace all HTML entities with their real Unicode character
upon saving. Then people can use — and ‘ as much as they
want; they will get the character they want, but they won't uglify the
wikitext. Thus, introducing an extra wiki syntax like ""this"" now
would
be quiute redundant later.
The reason the patch for "--" was reverted is that some people
apparently like to use several dashes in the wiki syntax for table rows,
and this broke it. Myself, I don't really get it; one dash is way enough...
Timwi