On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Tei
<oscar.vives(a)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:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=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.)