[wp-testers] Change of behaviour of smilie translations and WP-Grins

[Les Bessant]

Found this behaviour with the betas (it may precede them, but I didn't look
too closely before).

All posts imported from my live 2.0.x installation into a test site using
2.1.

I have a number of custom smilies, all defined in wp-config.php. As I often
string several together, not all their translations have spaces in. In fact,
hardly any do. Most are of the form ':rant:' with the surrounding colons
being enough to ensure they are only translated when I want them to.

This all works as expected in 2.0.x.

In 2.1, I find that translation does not happen unless there are spaces
around the string to be translated. So a smiley at the beginning of a
comment tends not to be translated, two in a row don't get translated, and
those inserted straight after words or punctuation don't get translated.

I found this: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2444 in trac - I'm not a
coder, so I have little chance of working out what it means, but it looks
like it might be related.

Is this behaviour expected[1] or is it something that can be changed

And on the subject of smilies, the traditional way of using WP-Grins
(http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/smilies/) doesn't seem doable any more.
I've looked at the code, but don't have any idea where to start with finding
where to put the call. I did manage to put the function call into a new
block on the sidebar, but that's not as neat as running them above the post
form. Suggestions would be useful - I know a lot of people like clickable
smilies....

[1] Or "by design" as Microsoft like to say about annoying "features" ;-)



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