On Sep 19, 2008, at 2:57 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > 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.
Sure. Two more reasons: * we were using ~~ previously for italics and we didn't get any complaint about the fact that ~ were hard to type * I'm pretty sure ~ is less common than \ -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
