On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.yu wrote:
On Friday 03 October 2008 02:23:37 Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Tei oscar.vives@gmail.com wrote:
Heres is a script that replace normal whitespace with one of the whitespaces supported by UTF8 ( Others are           ​ ;  ).
I have made a few vandalization test here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tei/lalaland
What do you guys think? could this be a problem? You can break links like [[Mr Thonson]] replacing it by [[Mr Thonson]]
We don't want to ban all Unicode whitespace. Some of it is useful, which is why it's in Unicode. :) For the specific case of titles,
Thinking a bit about it, why not? Upon saving, convert all spaces to the ASCII space. If someone legitimately needs another space, he can and should use HTML entity. Someone who uses another space simply creates confusion for other editors who have no way to differ it from the ordinary space.
You could say that about a lot of Unicode characters. "it simply create confusion" "should use the HTML entity".
My keyboard mapping types the non-breaking space just fine (I press greek-space) and I find it pretty useful.
If you were going to do any conversion, I'd suggest it be TO the correct HTML entity. But I think it would far better to not convert at all and instead give the editing and diff views some kind ability to colorize interesting characters.