> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 18:49:39 +0100 > From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > > > It's okay not to solve the cases where an Info file use ^_ (I don't > > think you will find any of these, for this very reason). But I don't > > think we can just disregard the control characters that do no harm > > today, because an Info reader that will try interpreting them as a > > quote might do some very wrong things with them, or even crash. IMO, > > if we want the solution to stand the test of time, it should provide > > some way of having "harmless" control characters in the file, without > > interpreting them as quotes. > > The control characters would only be interpreted as quotes in > particular contexts. Any outside those contexts would be left as they > are.
How do you know you are in that particular context? Isn't that the very problem that causes the problems with colons?
