Feature Request: Support parse of -{}- in certain language

[ghost]

"-{}-" is used to convert many varients of Chinese, including traditional Chinese (zh-hant) and simplified Chinese (zh-hans), in some wikis like zhwiki.

Example: -{zh-hans:测试;zh-hant:測試}-
It is shown as "测试" for traditional Chinese user, and shown as "測試" for simplified Chinese user.

There are some projects to process it:

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/55895 - Gerrit for zhwiki local convert table.
• http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/includes/ZhConversion.php - MediaWiki code for conversion.

A single conversion mark may not greatly affect the article. However, some articles with a general conversion table (at subpages of Template:CGroup / Module:CGroup, included by Template:NoteTA) will add much useless data (for human readers).

Example article: Wiki
More at here.

It may be a large project, with following updates:

• Allow users using zhwiki to choose their language varient
• Parse the conversion table

[cscott]

See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T43716 -- working on it!