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[Luke Emmet]

Lets keep it simple please. Here are my 2p worth

For any quoting of the special line prefixes:

1. put within a ``` section inside text/gemini
2. serve the content with text/plain then you can say what you want
3. for quoting ``` prefix with a space or intersperse with a space thus 
` ` ` (or variant thereof)
4. Use a link to a text/plain or whatever other rich format

text/gemini format does not have its own meta language in it. It is 
supposed to be simple, if you need something else, use something else

zero width spaces and their ilk are horrible for many reasons, but 
security is a big one.

Best wishes

  - Luke

On 03-Jun-2020 20:43, Petite Abeille wrote:
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>> On Jun 3, 2020, at 21:32, James Tomasino <tomasino at lavabit.com 
>> <mailto:tomasino at lavabit.com>> wrote:
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>> If that's too ugly, there's always the good old zero-width space for you
>> crazy cats.
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space
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> Ah, yes, another can of worms:
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> *Blacklisting in URLs
> */ICANN rules prohibit domain names from including non-displayed 
> characters such as zero-width space, and most browsers blacklist their 
> use within domain names, because they can be used to create 
> a homograph attack, where a malicious URL is visually 
> indistinguishable from a legitimate one.
> /
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.IDN.blacklist_chars
>