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Support Kotlin in code highlighting [duplicate]

The relevant PR was merged into code-prettify: https://github.com/google/code-prettify/issues/491 As per instructions, I'm asking to deploy it to the network and assign to kotlin tag.
Ilya Ryzhenkov's user avatar
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Why is syntax highlighting not working for my Perl script? [closed]

In this post I added a perl script. This script works and is correctly highlighted in all the editors that I tested in. Yet still highlighting doesn't seem to work as expected on SO. From this line ...
Bram Vanroy's user avatar
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Do we auto-detect and highlight CSS for questions tagged CSS?

https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/2331277 Wasn't sure why this suggested edit was necessary. The only tag is css so I thought this should be picked up by our algos. Tagging as bug ...
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Prettify claims the whole post body

The first edition of this question: https://stackoverflow.com/q/15692844/11683 Seems like the question text is all prettified despite it's not formatted as all code. Does not happen in the preview. ...
GSerg's user avatar
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Incorrect syntax highlighting with non-ASCII characters [duplicate]

The C# highlighter (and possibly others) chokes on non-ASCII characters in class names, as can be seen in this post: Trouble with if circulating EDIT: Prettify bug report submitted.
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2 votes
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Language hints for quoted code

In this post I tried to add language hints for syntax formatting to code blocks quoted from the question. However, it seems they won't be honoured if I write them as a comment in my own part of the ...
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2 votes
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String not displaying correctly [duplicate]

I just answered my own question here (GeoPheonix answered in the comments but didn't provide a full answer), and the string in the code isn't displaying correctly: This may seem like a minor nitpick ...
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Using Safari 5.1.4, code blocks are empty on Stack Overflow

Code blocks on Stack Overflow (lines beginning with 4 whitespaces) with Safari v5.1.4 are empty/blank (even with the inspector, indicating it's populated via javascript). If I use another browser (i....
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'output' keyword isn't recognized by the syntax highlighter in SQL code blocks [duplicate]

The highlighting for SQL code blocks doesn't appear to recognize the keyword 'output'. Please see Showing column twice in a query, second time showing data post update/set for an example. Note that '...
Michael A's user avatar
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Syntax-highlighting doesn't detect virtual as a keyword for C#? [closed]

The syntax-highlighting functionality for code doesn't detect virtual as a keyword for C#. Note: This is true even if you add the hint <!-- language: lang-cs --> as per these instructions. It ...
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Can we enable syntax highlighting for code in comments?

There is no syntax highlighting nor any ways to emphasize code written in comments. I have noticed that this is one of the key factors leading users to misunderstand one another. I use the backticks ...
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