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

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Date: Mar 5, 2024, 17:37 UTC
Message-ID: <6de8764e-9764-4c2b-ac2e-ca5e8480908a@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1e71ce757c3d773fd7354cd12473b851@manjaro.org>

On Tue, Mar 5, 2024, at 18:20, Dragan Simic wrote:

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> 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.

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Kristoffer Haugsbakk

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