[Wikipedia-l] Re: zh.wikipedia.org - having a single unified portal

Wed Jun 23 05:33:14 UTC 2004

ruimu uestc wrote:
> I guess that
> in the case of Wikipedia, such exceptions could be handled by special
> markups inside the text. If a simplified sentence is S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 and S3
> conversion is not obvious, one could write something like S1 S2 S3
> <!--#Full=F3--> S4 S5, what would help the conversion tool.

Perhaps a more compact wiki-like syntax would be better. For example, a 
single simplified character followed by a traditional character in 
square brackets, i.e. S3[F3], would be converted to the appropriate 
single character.

-- Tim Starling