On 6/22/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/22/06, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com wrote:
This is something that was in the 1.5 development tree before release but pulled out just before release due to issues with doing dumb -- to emdash replacement in the not-a-parser. One case I remember it breaking on was image names which contained --, links around -- ([[foo|bar]]--[[bar|foo]] didn't work etc.)
OIC, the substition was taking place too early? Yeah, you wouldn't want {{--}} to be treated as if you'd typed {{—}}...
So is it permanently dead?
No, like I said the currently availible implementation has flaws, and there might also be other issues to work out besides that, such as locale issues. But I don't think anyone (Brion for one doesn't, IIRC) objects to the idea of having a working implementation of that in the parser.