--- a/src/plugins/plugin_misc_text_syntaxes.py	Wed Jul 12 19:06:28 2017 +0200
+++ b/src/plugins/plugin_misc_text_syntaxes.py	Thu Jul 13 20:53:51 2017 +0200
@@ -63,8 +63,6 @@
     C.PI_DESCRIPTION: _("""Management of various text syntaxes (XHTML-IM, Markdown, etc)""")
 }
 
-class UnknownSyntax(Exception):
-    pass
 
 class TextSyntaxes(object):
     """ Text conversion class
@@ -77,6 +75,8 @@
     SYNTAX_XHTML = _SYNTAX_XHTML
     SYNTAX_MARKDOWN = "markdown"
     SYNTAX_TEXT = "text"
+    syntaxes = {}
+    default_syntax = SYNTAX_XHTML
 
     params = """
     <params>
@@ -95,13 +95,12 @@
         'category_label': _(CATEGORY),
         'name': NAME,
         'label': _(NAME),
-        'syntaxes': {},
+        'syntaxes': syntaxes,
         }
 
     def __init__(self, host):
         log.info(_("Text syntaxes plugin initialization"))
         self.host = host
-        self.syntaxes = {}
         self.addSyntax(self.SYNTAX_XHTML, lambda xhtml: defer.succeed(xhtml), lambda xhtml: defer.succeed(xhtml),
                        TextSyntaxes.OPT_NO_THREAD)
         # TODO: text => XHTML should add <a/> to url like in frontends
@@ -120,10 +119,12 @@
             log.info(u"You can download/install them from https://pythonhosted.org/Markdown/ and https://github.com/Alir3z4/html2text/")
         host.bridge.addMethod("syntaxConvert", ".plugin", in_sign='sssbs', out_sign='s',
                               async=True, method=self.convert)
+        host.bridge.addMethod("syntaxGet", ".plugin", in_sign='s', out_sign='s',
+                              method=self.getSyntax)
 
     def _updateParamOptions(self):
-        data_synt = TextSyntaxes.params_data['syntaxes']
-        default_synt = TextSyntaxes.params_data.get('default', _SYNTAX_XHTML)
+        data_synt = TextSyntaxes.syntaxes
+        default_synt = TextSyntaxes.default_syntax
         syntaxes = []
 
         for syntax in data_synt.keys():
@@ -216,13 +217,17 @@
 
         if syntax_from == _SYNTAX_CURRENT:
             syntax_from = self.getCurrentSyntax(profile)
+        else:
+            syntax_from = syntax_from.lower().strip()
         if syntax_to == _SYNTAX_CURRENT:
             syntax_to = self.getCurrentSyntax(profile)
-        syntaxes = TextSyntaxes.params_data['syntaxes']
+        else:
+            syntax_to = syntax_to.lower().strip()
+        syntaxes = TextSyntaxes.syntaxes
         if syntax_from not in syntaxes:
-            raise UnknownSyntax(syntax_from)
+            raise exceptions.NotFound(syntax_from)
         if syntax_to not in syntaxes:
-            raise UnknownSyntax(syntax_to)
+            raise exceptions.NotFound(syntax_to)
         d = None
 
         if TextSyntaxes.OPT_NO_THREAD in syntaxes[syntax_from]["flags"]:
@@ -259,18 +264,29 @@
         if TextSyntaxes.OPT_HIDDEN in flags and TextSyntaxes.OPT_DEFAULT in flags:
             raise ValueError(u"{} and {} are mutually exclusive".format(TextSyntaxes.OPT_HIDDEN, TextSyntaxes.OPT_DEFAULT))
 
-        syntaxes = TextSyntaxes.params_data['syntaxes']
-        if name in syntaxes:
-            raise exceptions.ConflictError(u"This syntax name already exists: {}".format(name))
-        syntaxes[name] = {"to": to_xhtml_cb, "from": from_xhtml_cb, "flags": flags}
+        syntaxes = TextSyntaxes.syntaxes
+        key = name.lower().strip()
+        if key in syntaxes:
+            raise exceptions.ConflictError(u"This syntax key already exists: {}".format(key))
+        syntaxes[key] = {"name": name, "to": to_xhtml_cb, "from": from_xhtml_cb, "flags": flags}
         if TextSyntaxes.OPT_DEFAULT in flags:
-            TextSyntaxes.params_data['default'] = name
+            TextSyntaxes.default_syntaxe = key
 
         self._updateParamOptions()
 
-    def _removeMarkups(self, xhtml):
+    def getSyntax(self, name):
+        """get syntax key corresponding to a name
+
+        @raise exceptions.NotFound: syntax doesn't exist
         """
-        Remove XHTML markups from the given string.
+        key = name.lower().strip()
+        if key in self.syntaxes:
+            return key
+        raise exceptions.NotFound
+
+    def _removeMarkups(self, xhtml):
+        """Remove XHTML markups from the given string.
+
         @param xhtml: the XHTML string to be cleaned
         @return: the cleaned string
         """