On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:
> There's no real need to encode these IMHO; in nearly all scenarios it
> would be more readable to strip them, just like we strip markup.
> Lossiness isn't a problem as long as the result is useful and legible.
> (Note we already have to handle uniqueness by appending a number for
> duplicate section header names, so stripping characters from the
> originals doesn't create a new problem there.)

Yeah, I was thinking about it and reached the same conclusion.  Just
replace any run of disallowed characters with underscores.  If it
starts with a character that's only valid in the middle, we might
prefix an underscore instead of an x, while we're at it.

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