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Tue, 5 Mar 2024 11:59:20 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface User-Agent: Cyrus-JMAP/3.11.0-alpha0-208-g3f1d79aedb-fm-20240301.002-g3f1d79ae Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <3bef4fef-0a00-4ed8-878e-372c4d8f552d@app.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <52d6850914982ffaf15dda937d611ffb@manjaro.org> References: <5e10f1e5-b87f-43cd-ac1e-d7c01b7dad21@app.fastmail.com> <52d6850914982ffaf15dda937d611ffb@manjaro.org> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2024 17:58:59 +0100 From: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" To: "Dragan Simic" Cc: "Manlio Perillo" , git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" Subject: Re: Clarify the meaning of "character" in the documentation Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 5, 2024, at 16:42, Dragan Simic wrote: > > May I ask why would we want the comment character to possibly be > a multibyte character? I mean, I support localization, to make it all > easier for the users who opt not to use English, but wouldn't allowing > multibyte characters for the comment character simply be a bit unneede= d? > > Maybe I'm missing something? Personally I think it=E2=80=99s okay. `%` for example is a good candidat= e since you seldom use that as a leading character in prose (after a whitespace), and it seems that `%` is often recommended as an alternative. But if it doesn=E2=80=99t make the code more complex: why not? (I just personally don=E2=80=99t have a use-case.)