Output unknown template as-is

[BoboTiG]

• Wiktionary page: https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/reparasiter

Wikicode:

{{[[re-]]}}

Output:

<i>(Re-)</i>

Expected:

{{re-}}

Should we try to extract [[re-]] from the {{}} in clean()? 🤔

[lasconic]

I would say the last last template handler should deal with it and not output <i>(Whatever)</i> but instead {{whatever}} ?

Do we really need this default output with <i>()</i> ?

[BoboTiG]

I guess the default formatting was useful at some point. We can try without and see what breaks.

[lasconic]

It's not that easy :) returning {{templatename}} in the default handler will cause an infinite loop, since we will always find a template to process...

[BoboTiG]

Yeah, and that's a corner case.
I do not get the formatting on the Wiktionary, is it a special meaning to use {{xxx}} in the French language? Maybe would it be good enough to edit the Wikicode.
I'm running --check-words a lot, and so far it's the only case I found.

[lasconic]

I found a (ugly) solution for the infinite loop but running check-words show that there are some templates that we don't handle (plus rare for example) that are handled by the default case...
I believe {{xxx}} just works on wiktionary and the editor wanted a way to not use [].

[BoboTiG]

Let's go for the ugly solution then :)