Karl Eichwalder wrote:
Tels nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com writes:
? "" escaping is used a lot elsewhere and "" would be the first char that springs to my mind.
Only on hacker keyboards (US flavor) the backslash is easy to enter...
That is a moot argument, because there is no single character that is "easy to type" on every official national keyboard layout. Indeed, we already have a lot of characters ([[]], {{}} and ~~~~) that are a nightmare on German keyboards.