Vincent Massol wrote: > On Sep 19, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > >> Vincent Massol wrote: >>> The reason to choose ~ is because it's not a character you use often >>> (certainly less often than \ IMO). >> Then is it a character found on most keyboards, for example russian >> keyboards? > > See http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Creole1.0 and > http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Creole1.0#section-Creole1.0-EscapeCharacter > > Creole has done the work for us. I don't see why we should do it again > especially since we want to be compatible with it... >
Then +1 Not that I don't like ~ in particular, but I don't like that we must use *anything* as a very special symbol, so we should be sure that it's the safest choice. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
