Phil Boswell wrote:
Steve Summit wrote:
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At some point, once Tim recovers from (or becomes inured to) his
horror at sending us down this slippery slope in this hell-bent
handbasket, we can think about introducing a proper built-in
{{exists:}} operator, to eliminate the need for the bizarre
compare-the-substitution-to-the-redlink hack. (Though I *am*
appreciative of whoever devised it...)
This has now been done, for anybody interested:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions#.23ifexist:
This is all very welcome. Does it or can it extend to words that differ
only by the presence, absence or variation of diacritics? A dictionary
that aspires to include all words in all languages faces some
significant challenges in making these terms accessible to people who
have no idea about how to enter words with diacritics in the search
box. Some _may_ be able to handle letters that fall within ISO 8859-1,
but even they will have significant difficulties when things get a
little more exotic.
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