On 11/28/07, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There has to be a better way, surely. Anything
using the same
character for different things is going to run into trouble...
Can't be avoided. By definition in Wikitext every character is valid
as a literal representation of itself, so there is always a kind of
ambiguity. Is * as the start of a line a list, or a line starting with
*? Is [[foo]] a link or someone talking about wikitext, etc. So:
Until you actually want to use a backquote.
Doesn't happen very often
in English, but does it get used in other languages?
Right, `` conflicts with ` twice. But we can't do better than that. I
would also be curious if anyone actually uses `. It's a pretty dubious
character, invented by some typewriter hack.
` is used in the transcriptions of some languages. Especially Arabic but
also sometimes Hebrew and Hawaiian I think.
Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)
Steve
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