Steve Bennett wrote:
- Is the name of the category "actually" foo''bar and it just
happens to display as foo''bar ?
No.
- Is the name of the category "actually" foo''bar, and we put a page
in that category with the hackish wikimarkup [[Category:foo''bar]]
Yes.
Actually, on the MediaWiki question, it *would* theoretically be possible to just ignore all attempted formatting within [[Article]] or [[Category:]] links wouldn't it? Since we don't support formatting in page names (and are unlikely to with that syntax anytime soon), it seems conceivable that [[Category:Foo''bar]] should take that name literally and not attempt to interpret it as italics, which wouldn't work anyway...
Theoretically, but links and bold/italics are handled on separate parser passes. Things get ugly... :)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)