19 Sep
2008
19 Sep
'08
3:03 p.m.
On Sep 19, 2008, at 2:57 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
Vincent Massol wrote:
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
On Sep 19, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu
wrote:
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. Vincent Massol wrote:
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...
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?