Re: Clarify the meaning of "character" in the documentation

From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Date: Mar 5, 2024, 21:19 UTC
Message-ID: <1c2ee0c45053e1b60e8ea64c19b6c292@manjaro.org>
In-Reply-To: <6de8764e-9764-4c2b-ac2e-ca5e8480908a@app.fastmail.com>

On 2024-03-05 18:37, Kristoffer Haugsbakk wrote:

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> On Tue, Mar 5, 2024, at 18:20, Dragan Simic wrote:
>> On 2024-03-05 17:58, Kristoffer Haugsbakk wrote:
>>> Personally I think it’s okay. `%` for example is a good candidate 
>>> since
>>> you seldom use that as a leading character in prose (after a
>>> whitespace), and it seems that `%` is often recommended as an
>>> alternative.
>> 
>> Isn't '%' actually an ASCII character?
> 
> I wasn’t clear: personally I think the status quo of only allowing 
> ASCII
> characters seems fine given that you can use something like `%` as an
> alternative comment char.

Ah, I see.  Thanks for the clarification.

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