So why's Greek OK at all in article titles? This *is* the en Wikipedia, after all. Why's Greek even mentioned here? After all, en articles have always been using all of Unicode anyway, independent of the recent move. Ambarish 29 June 2005 06:04 (UTC)
I already know of one instance where a sub is used: (99942) 2004 MN₄. --cesarb 2 July 2005 00:24 (UTC)
2000 SG 3 4 4
2000 SG 344
Older discussion: [1]
See also: Talk:2003 EL61#₆₁ characters ?
--cesarb 17:29, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
Some weeks ago I started a debate on WP:MoS, targeting the current semi-policy of only allowing straight quotation marks and apostrophes. See Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Quotation marks and apostrophes).
(I am very much opposed to the “straight quotes only” policy, because Wikipedia Is Not A Typewriter; and think WP should follow other Wikipedias and its own dash policy by allowing “curlies”. If you have anything to add to that discussion, please do so.)
The debate is tangentially relevant to the present page mainly because of apostrophes, which are a common character in English because of the way English form possessives. The linked page tries to identify technical problems with allowing proper apostrophes in titles (and I set up a number of test cases on the MW 1.5 test site), and no problems were reported.
Besides the technical issues (of which there are none as far as I can see) there is a policy issue relating to the WP:MoS but also to naming conventions. Specifically, should Mother's day be moved to Mother’s day? (I certainly think so, the former looks horrid to the typographically trained eye.)
Note that on a windows box, with the standard font and size, the two characters ' and ’ look the same. On a Mac there is a subtle difference, and in page titles the difference would be very visible because of the font size. Arbor 6 July 2005 12:04 (UTC)
I would suggest that article titles of names should use transliteration, if possible restricted to the ascii (letters), Latin1 and Latin Extended ranges (no combining diacritics if at all possible). Greek and Hebrew letters should be permissible when they are symbols (like in χ² distribution, so yes, I do think Chi-squared distribution should be moved there), or when the article is about the character itself (ב, @ (ascii, but not a letter)). But policy should be that every article with a title including non-ascii characters should have at least one redirect with an ascii title (e.g. Beth (letter) redirecting to ב). Sometimes, we just need some common good judgement. Fe (rune) will be at ᚠ some day, but since hardly any browsers can render ᚠ as of now, it is better to wait with the move. dab (ᛏ) 08:12, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
FYI, I've started a page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Typography/Unicode which may be of interest to people watching this page. —DragonHawk (talk|hist) 03:41, 22 June 2009 (UTC)