From: Dragan Simic Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2024 17:20:27 GMT Subject: Re: Clarify the meaning of "character" in the documentation Message-ID: <1e71ce757c3d773fd7354cd12473b851@manjaro.org> In-Reply-To: <3bef4fef-0a00-4ed8-878e-372c4d8f552d@app.fastmail.com> On 2024-03-05 17:58, Kristoffer Haugsbakk wrote: > On Tue, Mar 5, 2024, at 16:42, Dragan Simic wrote: >> May I ask why would we want the comment character to possibly be >> a multibyte character? I mean, I support localization, to make it all >> easier for the users who opt not to use English, but wouldn't allowing >> multibyte characters for the comment character simply be a bit >> unneeded? >> >> Maybe I'm missing something? > > 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? > But if it doesn’t make the code more complex: why not? (I just > personally don’t have a use-case.) Frankly, allowing multibyte characters as comment characters looks to me more like a programming exercise than a really needed feature.