On 11/12/07, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
We do know that the current parser makes it impossible to write Neapolitan words like l'' improve this is because '' gives you italic. In my opinion the parser should not be in the way of people writing the language as is usual for that language.
Looking through the code, I find this weird. There is already an extension to parse link trails backwards for Arabic words (if I understand correctly, al[[Razi]] is rendered <alRazi>). It would seem straightforward to alter the grammar for that installation so that '' wasn't rendered as italics, and so that there was another way of doing italics.
Of course it's not ideal that different Wikipedias use different dialects of wikitext, but the '' problem is pretty severe.
Steve