On 5/27/06, GerardM <gerard.meijssen(a)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).
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)