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behaviour of HTML entities in <nowiki>

Jan 6, 2003, 6:28 AM

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has this been changed recently?
look at the sections on special characters on
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AHow_does_one_edit_a_page

Things like

π <nowiki>π</nowiki>

now shows the same thing twice -- so it's now not possible to
demonstrate how to produce these charcaters.

Re: behaviour of HTML entities in <nowiki> [ In reply to ]

e.moeller at fokus

Jan 6, 2003, 6:34 AM

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On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 14:28, tarquin wrote:
> has this been changed recently?
> look at the sections on special characters on
> http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AHow_does_one_edit_a_page
>
> Things like
>
> π <nowiki>π</nowiki>
>
> now shows the same thing twice -- so it's now not possible to
> demonstrate how to produce these charcaters.

This is probably not intentional, but you can work around it by typing
&pi; etc.

Regards,

Erik

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Re: behaviour of HTML entities in <nowiki> [ In reply to ]

brion at pobox

Jan 6, 2003, 10:59 AM

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On lun, 2003-01-06 at 05:34, Erik Moeller wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 14:28, tarquin wrote:
> > has this been changed recently?
> > look at the sections on special characters on
> > http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AHow_does_one_edit_a_page
> >
> > Things like
> >
> > π <nowiki>π</nowiki>
> >
> > now shows the same thing twice -- so it's now not possible to
> > demonstrate how to produce these charcaters.
>
> This is probably not intentional, but you can work around it by typing
> &pi; etc.

It's quite intentional, and restores the original behavior of <nowiki>
and <pre> from a longtime bug in phase 3.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)