Karl Eichwalder wrote:
Tels <nospam-abuse(a)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.