On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 at 04:57 +0000, Timwi wrote:
Eric Pierce wrote:
Also, there's some ongoing disagreement about "correct" quote usage: several users like to replace standard ASCII apostrophes with their lsquo/rsquo HTML counterparts, which seriously uglifies the wikitext.
Of course this has been discussed before, but the reason nothing has been done about it is that the issue almost automatically solves itself when the English Wikipedia (and all other remaining Latin-1 wikis) finally switches to UTF-8. Once that is done, we can introduce some code that will replace all HTML entities with their real Unicode character upon saving. Then people can use — and ‘ as much as they want; they will get the character they want, but they won't uglify the wikitext. Thus, introducing an extra wiki syntax like ""this"" now would be quiute redundant later.
The reason the patch for "--" was reverted is that some people apparently like to use several dashes in the wiki syntax for table rows, and this broke it. Myself, I don't really get it; one dash is way enough...
if you mean :
{| |-----
it comes from the python bot, then people learn this syntax from the numerous example in code. I used this syntax a few month before noticing it wasn't necessary. It improves a bit readability of table too.
phe