Forum:& codes expand even inside nowiki tags

I put "&amp;#9835;" into a post surround by nowiki tags. It expanded into the matching character despite the nowiki tags. Sample: &#9835;

Is that a bug in the Media Wiki version? Will (Talk - contribs) 06:01, 18 December 2007 (UTC)


 * It's not a bug, it's the way it was meant to work.  was meant to stop WikiText from being parsed not to escape characters. Just like it's name says. It would also be a major issue if the entities were double escaped. When you try to use   It renders as a &lt;nowiki&gt; inside the tags, with a &lt;/nowiki&gt; left outside because the first &lt;/nowiki&gt; is considered to be the ending tag. If it weren't for the fact that entities are not escaped we wouldn't be able to use   to get "  &lt;/nowiki> ". How important this is shows up when we add extra things into the mix like.   outputs "   link " instead of "  &lt;/nowiki>link " which you actually need to use   to get. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) (current topic)  Dec 18, 2007 @ 08:23 (UTC)