Convert ASCII typography into HTML entities using SmartyPants (libtext-typography-perl)

We’ve had the “typography” plugin of ikiwiki enabled in our config since the beginning of times. It requires the libtext-typography-perl package to work but it’s not enabled on the server nor mentioned in our doc.

This would do smart and nice things, for example, it would convert:

• ... into …
• ' into ’
• " into “ or ”
• -- into —

It detects HTML (respects ) and `.

One problem I could detect is our use of for command line.

For example on /doc/first_steps/persistence/copy the --del to rsync becomes — because it’s inside of a (and not a ).

If we take this into account while working on #15120, we might be able to activate this plugin without trouble.

Related issues

• Blocked by #15120

Original created by @sajolida on 17229 (Redmine)