Author: bugzilla
Description:
It would be nice if Mediawiki could get a “Smart Quotes (and Apostrophes)” ability. I don’t care much if it would change the characters in the source or if it only changed " and ' for display. MW should of course ignore straight marks that are code themselves (Wiki markup or HTML, and inside <source/>).
Several [http://www.poppyware.com/dunham/smartQuotes.html algorithms] have been published, so no need to reinvent the wheel, but if you assume certain style guides be followed, they may even be simplified and leave no ambiguous situations. (The Manual of Style for the English Wikipedia, for instance, requires double quotation marks used in the logic style.)
I would prefer if only " and ' would be converted, not character SGML/HTML/XML references, but that would only work on the code and not the display level of course.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement