I'm using Wikka Wiki. The page that prompted my suggestion is at
http://docs.aliro.org/AliroAbstractDatabase. You'll see the use of
double underscore in the text. Putting the original HTML through
the convertor leaves the double underscore untouched.
But Wikka Wiki thinks that double underscore is used to make text
underlined (e.g. by writing __underlined__). So the double
underscore is not displayed, and instead following text is
underlined. This is not right. To display the double underline
using Wikka Wiki, it has to be enclosed in double double quotes.
The same sort of problem would arise with other characters, such as
the equals sign, which has a styling meaning in Wikka Wiki.
It seems relatively simple (!) to handle this because only a limited
number of characters are used for styling in Wikka Wiki and there is
no reason to suppose that if they appear in the original HTML they
are intended to be wiki styling elements. On the contrary, they are
presumably part of the text, since HTML is not aimed at wiki
engines. So it would make sense to put double double quotes round
anything that looked like a wiki styling string (or whatever quoting
mechanism is used by other dialects).
Best regards, Martin Brampton
David Iberri via RT wrote:
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> On Fri Mar 06 13:20:45 2009, counterpoint@aliro.org wrote:
>> It would be helpful if the converter would double quote strings that are
>> unlikely to be meant to be wiki control codes when appearing in HTML.
>> For example, the string #__ used in some software documentation needs to
>> be converted to #""__"" for the wiki output. Same applies to other wiki
>> control codes.
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> Please let me know what dialect (or wiki engine) you're referring to.
> Offhand, I'm not sure what dialect would require that sort of escaping.
> Thanks!
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> -- David Iberri
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