[Wikia-l] Character entities in wikitext

[Angela]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:18 PM, John Beckett <johnb.beckett at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for guidance on using html character entities in wikitext.
>...
> I have seen some tragic consequences. If we use "<S-F1>" (Shift+F1 key), we get
> strike through like <s>...</s>. Also "<q-args>" renders as curly quotes.

An easy solution is to put <nowiki> tags around it. This prevents the
wikitext having any effect.

See the examples here: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Project:Sandbox

Angela