On 6/20/05, Lee Daniel Crocker lee@piclab.com wrote:
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 22:05 -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
I've removed the automatic substitution of – and — for hyphen sequences from 1.5, as it seems to simply cause a neverending sequence of breakage of links and markup...
I was planning to add that feature to the parser code I'm currently working on (as well as something for curly-quotes). I get the impression from your note that the problems are all related to the current parser misinterpreting what is displayed text and what is markup, is that right? If so, my adding that feature to sample code for a spec that eliminates any such ambiguity should not be a problem. Or is there some other problem?
No, there's no other problem, first we had an issue with it because it changed - to – in image names, and of course there was no image by the dash name so the image failed to render at all, and presently (before brion took it out) it was changing - to – in ISO 8601 dates and failing to change - between two wikilinked years to – (because they had already been changed to html at that point so the previous regex didn't cut it.