On Wed, May 11, 2005, Nicolas Weeger wrote:
I'd also like to suggest the removal of the workaround (occupying most of the first half of parser.php doQuotes) dealing with confusion of quotes-as-text and quotes-as-markup within words. In other words, the workaround provides that "l'''italic''plain" renders as "l<i>italic</i>plain".
Fatal error: failed assert( not_much_in_use ); on line 345 :) This is widely used (at least) on w:fr: and is *required* - many words starting with a vowel will yield a leading "l'", sometimes we want to highlight only the word after.
The proper fix for this situation is to use the real apostrophe character (U+2019 right single quotation mark, UTF-8 0xE28099) for apostrophes and continue using ' for wiki markup.