Re: Next step

John C Klensin wrote:

 [􂍅 might be ugly]
> Use of a sequence of special characters, none of which may
> be completely familiar to those who don't regularly use a
> fairly full set of Roman characters and both of which, IIR,
> are assigned to "national use" positions in ISO 646 BV

No C trigraph for "&", but "#" has "??=".

IMO that's a historic foot note, nobody used weird "national
variants" of ASCII for at least a decade.  And we're talking
about US ASCII anyway.

> the ability to get help from common programming-oriented 
> editors and syntax-checkers, favors paired delimiters over
> subjectively unmatched ones

Is that about protocols needing a new escape mechanism, or
about the prose in RFCs ?  In the former case some piece of
software will do it, in the latter case an editor macro can
take care of the raw UTF-8 or whatever it is.  An example is
<http://purl.net/xyzzy/kex/x-wiki.kex> for an XEDIT-clone.

Frank