On 22/10/2023 16:00, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
Max Nikulin writes:
P.S. I am against using non-printable characters for markup. It might be
an \... entity for page break inside a paragraph, "#+...:" keyword
between block-level elements, etc.
What about all the above? We may provide entity, keyword, and also ^L.
I have not changed my opinion. Control characters should not be used for
plain text markup.
^L might be inconvenient for users of browser-based tools (organice,
etc.). Firefox displays it as a square with 0c code inside <textarea>
and as some space in regular tags. In Chromium it is invisible similar
to zero-width space. Fortunately browsers allows to copy a paste it, it
is exemption from control characters that are stripped on copy to
protect users from unexpected effects of paste.
However e.g. konsole (terminal application) shows a warning popup on
attempt to paste text containing ^L.
My vote is for portability, so usage of ^L should be discouraged.
