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LRM/RLM in the wikitext of a category assignment makes it impossible to edit/remove the category in VE
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On one article on ja.wp, someone added a category with a ‎ mark (U+200E). THis mark is invisible and avoid people to remove that category by using VE.

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Trizek-WMF created this task.Mar 4 2016, 11:37 AM
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Frozen-mikan subscribed.Mar 5 2016, 1:59 PM
• Elitre subscribed.Mar 7 2016, 4:24 PM
Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from U+200E avoid people to remove a category with VE to LRM/RLM in the wikitext of a category assignment makes it impossible to edit/remove the category in VE.Mar 29 2016, 8:56 PM
Jdforrester-WMF triaged this task as Low priority.
Jdforrester-WMF added projects: VisualEditor-MediaWiki, MediaWiki-Categories.
Jdforrester-WMF set the point value for this task to 1.
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.Apr 19 2016, 7:30 PM
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• matmarex subscribed.Jan 28 2021, 5:12 PM

I tried this locally and I can't reproduce. It might have been a Parsoid bug that they fixed since 2016.

• matmarex closed this task as Resolved.Jan 28 2021, 5:12 PM
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