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David, thanks for the patch. This is a good starting point when it comes to
implementing such an enhancement. This is really something that is needed,
together with a way to switch "@" symbol substitution on and off, when
needed (which is often a problem - maybe a FAQ - and it looks like there
isn't a proper way to deal with it).

However, I do fully agree with Greg that this is not appropriate as a
configure option, for the reasons Greg mentioned in his post in
fltk.development [1]. Besides that, I'd rather have the symbol
substitution character changeable (at runtime), so that it is not another
constant - and in your proposal a non-printing/control character that
would be difficult (but not impossible) to handle in strings. I would even
go so far that this should be settable per widget (on, off, which
character) and not only globally.

Another point not to add a new configure option is to avoid having to
remove it again later. This would seriously break backwards compatibility.

I'd vote -1 for the patch in this form, but think that it is good to add
such a feature in the future.

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