On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@home.nl wrote:
I'm personally wary of abusing the edit token too much for this purpose. \ and + are there because clients mangling those characters screw up big time, whereas Unicode/IPA damage is fairly limited (unless you're editing in a language that uses Unicode characters extensively, such as German).
. . . or any other language than English. It's true that we needn't block such people if they aren't going to screw anything up, but in practice that's only likely for English, and most popular pages on enwiki probably contain at least one Unicode character too.