Last modified: 2014-08-23 12:27:02 UTC
From user suggestion, along the lines of how Microsoft Word works. This would involve a number of language-specific substitutions (and probably some shared ones); for English, I believe it would at least involve: * If a user types the character string 'foo "bar', on the pressing of the 'b' it would convert the '"' character to a an “. * If a user types the '"' character whilst in a string that has an “ in it earlier, convert the character to an ”. * If a user types in ' - ', on the pressing of the space character after the hyphen, covert the hyphen to an &endash;. * If a user types in ' -- ', on the pressing of the space character after the second hyphen, covert the two hyphens into one &emdash;. Worth considering as a nice to have; this would probably want to be both site-configurable (is it available at all; if yes, is it default-on), and user-configurable.
Also ellipses (... -> …) and other auto-conversions, if this is done.
And use bom. It's the right thing to do.
en.wp user Ruud Koot requests "--" be converted to endash and "---" to emdash, which is slightly different to comment 0.
For German, that would mean changing "" in „“, like it is being suggested at de.wp.
