Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-25582101-20141030012433/@comment-24253265-20141101155532

Xyfnez1618 wrote: seems like if I type '&' on my Japanese Keyboard: '＆', this one doesn't get converted to the '&amp;amp;'.

Good enough, the full width version is  (u+FF06). All my attempts to find a better solution right down to a Template:& in the style of Template:! failed. After seven years MediaWiki has now replaced Template:! by a "magic word"  (not yet available here.) About 2022 your full width hack will be fixed ;-)