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

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Date: Mar 5, 2024, 16:58 UTC
Message-ID: <3bef4fef-0a00-4ed8-878e-372c4d8f552d@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <52d6850914982ffaf15dda937d611ffb@manjaro.org>

On Tue, Mar 5, 2024, at 16:42, Dragan Simic wrote:

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> 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.

But if it doesn’t make the code more complex: why not? (I just personally don’t have a use-case.)