Language names and source texts cannot have colons, semicolons, or equals signs or else the parser breaks.
This is a minor issue, but important for html2wt serialization in Parsoid. Parsoid uses <nowiki> tags around bad characters.
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | |
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| Open | None | T54661 Preprocessor/Parser irregularities with -{...}- variant constructs. | ||
| Open | None | T153265 Language converter source text and language names cannot use <nowiki> escaping. | ||
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At this point we probably won't bother to implement this in the legacy parser; Parsoid does this correctly and we'll get that behavior when we switch over to Parsoid.
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