A Gemini-style proposal (specifically to the harm of using Unicode characters as if they were formatted ascii)

[DJ Chase]

Others have already said what I would say about the rest of this thread,
so I will skip that part.

On Wed, 2021-11-03 at 12:41 +0200, babiak wrote:
> > If Gemtext can ignore the original semantics of the asterisk, the 
> > back-tick, the pound symbol, the equal symbol, and the greater-than 
> > symbol — then why can't we also do the same with those mathematical 
> > characters?
> > 
> 
> I personally don't recall the pound symbol having any meaning in gemini, 
> I'll have to look through the spec again. However!

Charles is refering to '#', not '£'. '#' is called the 'pound
{sign,symbol}' in the telephone system.


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