Sabine Cretella wrote:
We really do need '' as normal chars and not to initiate text written in italics ... we must be able to include this in a wiki link in some way and also in a category link ... is there a way to get a different tag for that - something like <apostrophs> </apostrophs> or whatever?
Since '' can't be round-tripped reliably in wikitext, it's most likely that we'll have to make '' explicitly forbidden in wiki page titles in the course of fixing parser bugs.
I strongly recommend you find another way of representing page titles that doesn't require the use of markup.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)