On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 1:16 PM, bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss < markdown-discuss@six.pairlist.net> wrote:
> gruber posted about markdown > on his daringfireball blog, which > is rare enough to be noticeable. > > but it became fully remarkable > when its final sentence made a > passing reference to a possible > "update to markdown" event -- > as if such a revision isn't a thing > he's always steadfastly refused. > > this isn't a reading of tea-leaves. > > it is a sudden jarring appearance > of tea-leaves in a place they have > never ever appeared before now. > > -bowerbird > Well, this *is* interesting! Here's the link, for easy reference: https://daringfireball.net/2017/07/unordered_lists_in_markdown Mostly it's a discussion of bulleted list styles, but the relevant quote is in the last paragraph: > But at the time, character-encoding mismatches were still a daily problem. Today, UTF-8 is sufficiently universal that using such characters in an update to Markdown would probably work out fine. -- The views expressed above are exclusively mine, if anyone's.
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