Allow soft hyphen () in interface messages
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	jhsoby
	Feb 16 2016, 1:39 PM

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MediaWiki messages should allow the soft hyphen (HTML ) in interface messages.

I first noticed this when I saw the message [[MediaWiki:Userrights/nb]], saying "Brukerrettighetskontroll", wrapped before "ll", like this: "Brukerrettighetskontro<br />ll". To fix this I wanted to insert soft hyphens so that if it wraps, it will wrap at the word boundaries, like this: "Brukerrettighetskontroll", but when I did this the  was converted to &shy;.

Some examples of how it looks in various variants can be seen here: https://no.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandkasse&oldid=15777471

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Core: Allow "soft hyphen" to be decimal encoded	mediawiki/core	master	+4 -1
	Allow in messages	mediawiki/core	master	+3 -1

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Mentioned Here: T66528: Allow manual insertion of soft hyphen in display title

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jhsoby created this task.Feb 16 2016, 1:39 PM

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Restricted Application added subscribers: StudiesWorld, Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptFeb 16 2016, 1:39 PM

Not all messages allow HTML entities. You should be able to use the actual invisible soft-hyphen character, though (for your copy-paste convenience, here it is: →←).

Nemo_bis subscribed.Feb 16 2016, 1:47 PM

Change 270953 had a related patch set uploaded (by Nikerabbit):
Allow  in messages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/270953

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Feb 16 2016, 2:02 PM

Nikerabbit subscribed.Feb 16 2016, 2:35 PM

Change 270953 merged by jenkins-bot:
Allow  in messages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/270953

matmarex closed this task as Resolved.Feb 17 2016, 2:27 PM

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ReleaseTaggerBot added projects: MW-1.27-release (WMF-deploy-2016-03-01_(1.27.0-wmf.15)), MW-1.27-release-notes.Feb 17 2016, 11:02 PM

matmarex merged a task: T128479: HTML-entity &shy; isn't recognized.Mar 1 2016, 4:54 PM

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Change 475999 had a related patch set uploaded (by John Erling Blad; owner: John Erling Blad):
[mediawiki/core@master] Core: Allow SOFT HYPHEN to be decimal encoded

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/475999

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gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Nov 27 2018, 12:08 PM

Change 475999 abandoned by John Erling Blad:
Core: Allow "soft hyphen" to be decimal encoded

Reason:
This bug needs a solution, and there is a solution, but I doubt any change is going to be accepted.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/475999

jeblad removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Nov 27 2018, 7:24 PM