Maniphest T134382

Design and provide a way for arbitrary special characters/entities to be shown to users in a special way denoting their status
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	May 4 2016, 1:34 PM

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New line / br – currently done in Surface with a "↵", might want users to be able to toggle etc. this feature.
NBSPs – T96666
SHYs – T134269

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		Esanders	T53045 VisualEditor: Ctrl+Shift+Space/Opt+Space to insert a non-breaking space (NBSP)
		Resolved		Esanders	T70429 VisualEditor: Add non-breaking space (nbsp) to the "special character" dialog
		Open		None	T78137 Leading white spaces should be highlighted and converted to   or something
		Resolved		matmarex	T96666 Make non-breaking spaces (nbsp) visible in VisualEditor
		Open		None	T134269 Allow editors to add and see existing soft hypen () non-visible characters where needed
		Open		None	T134382 Design and provide a way for arbitrary special characters/entities to be shown to users in a special way denoting their status

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Jdforrester-WMF created this task.May 4 2016, 1:34 PM

Restricted Application added subscribers: Zppix, Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptMay 4 2016, 1:34 PM

(See T50290: VisualEditor: ↵ is shown when wikicode contains single newline, which is not very WYSIWYG for discussions of the ↵ design.)

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to TR3: Language support on the VisualEditor board.May 4 2016, 1:40 PM

• Elitre subscribed.May 4 2016, 1:59 PM

Jdforrester-WMF removed a parent task: T134228: Can't paste wikitext references.May 4 2016, 3:09 PM

Jdforrester-WMF added a parent task: T96666: Make non-breaking spaces (nbsp) visible in VisualEditor.

Troubled.asset subscribed.May 5 2016, 1:29 PM

Maybe add en space (&ensp;) and an em space (&emsp;) to the pile (user case not provided yet).

ArgonSim subscribed.Nov 25 2016, 7:02 AM