On 5/27/06, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
I do not understand the need for markup in titles. I certainly believe that when markup prevents correct orthography in titles in any language, it means that markup cannot be handled in titles and consequently the markup in titles should not be allowed.
Understand that here you are advocating the requirement that '' and ''' be forbidden from titles (since they are markup). That's the easy answer, and I would certainly agree with that under ideal circumstances.
I don't expect you guys will let me do that, though.
As MediaWiki is about supporting all languages, markup in titles is clearly at best a nice to have and certainly not a must have. Representing orthographies is indeed a MUST have feature.
Here I'm guessing you mean that we should have a workaround, where '' and ''' can be used in titles, but (hopefully, maybe) they will be (somehow?) prevented from being interpreted as markup in things that are titles (consistently, we hope).
That's tricky to do right, as it involves some combination of guessing what people intended (very unreliable and inconsistent, probably) or forcing people to follow obscure escaping conventions (very unreliable to get people to follow them, especially newbies).
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