<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 25, 2008 10:32 AM, Christian Heimes <<a href="mailto:lists@cheimes.de">lists@cheimes.de</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Leif Walsh wrote:<br>> Out of almost-pure devil's advocacy, has <> been considered? My first<br>> instinct is that it would be ambiguous with less-than/greater-than,<br>> but if someone can convince me otherwise, might it work? After all,<br>
> it's the only other balanced pair of punctuation I see on my keyboard.<br><br></div>There are also « and », << and >> for those w/o UTF-8 support in their<br>mail client. On my keyboard the characters are available under [alt gr]<br>
+ y and x.<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote></div><br>They aren't available on my keyboard, nor on most US keyboards I would reckon. You can still type them if you know how (and I happen to know how in any of my environments) but it would limit the set literals to a particular set of source encodings (most notably, not ASCII.) I find this an extremely disturbing idea.<br clear="all">
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