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Bug 295 - '''bold text''' glitch when word preceeded by an apostrophe
'''bold text''' glitch when word preceeded by an apostrophe
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Parser (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: need-parsertest, parser
: 314 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
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Reported: 2004-09-03 03:08 UTC by Timwi
Modified: 2005-06-21 14:03 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Timwi 2004-09-03 03:08:44 UTC
BUG MIGRATED FROM SOURCEFORGE
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=948549&group_id=34373&atid=411192
Originally submitted by fabiform (fabiform)  2004-05-05 17:22


The wikimarkup for bolding a word preceeded by an
apostrophe (very very common in French) includes the
apostrophe in the bold section, and is even more broken
for italicised words.

If I want to bold the headword in the article "homme",
I type:
L''''homme''' est

This renders as
L<b>'homme</b> est

The problem is even worse if trying to italicise:

L'''homme'' est

Renders as:

L<b>homme<i> est
so the leading apostrophe is totally lost, and "est" is
rendered as bold italic, rather than plain text.

On fr.wikipedia I've seen three ways that people deal
with the problem:

1) ignore the fact that the leading apostrophe is bolded
2) add a space between the L' and the word so that the
wikimarkup renders properly, but this is incorrect
grammatically, and allows a word to be split at a line
break
3) use the <b> and <i> tags instead

------------------------- Additional comments ------------------------
Date: 2004-05-20 12:06
Sender: SF user jeluf

Fixed for bold in MediaWiki 1.3.ALPHA
See http://phase3.mormo.org/index.php/Ticktest

Hard to do this "right" for italic.
* make software render L' ''homme'' as L'homme.
   Might  break things in other languages, though, e.g.
          Jens' ''Meine Autobiografie''  
   in German should not be linked
* use a new tag, like L'_''homme''
* use the  tag instead
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Date: 2004-08-06 19:50
Sender: SF user magnus_manske

Added an option ($fixLbug) to brute-force replace L' or l'
with L' in CVS HEAD
Comment 1 Timwi 2004-09-03 19:33:54 UTC
Quite some time ago already, I had replaced Magnus's $fixLbug idea with a better
apostrophe-handling algorithm. Additionally, my flex/bison parser also handles
this better. Closing.
Comment 2 Timwi 2004-09-03 19:42:12 UTC
*** Bug 314 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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