Whatever markup convention is finally settled on, I suggest avoiding in
it the use of characters that often get mangled when passing through
gateways or are national use characters in ISO 646. As near as I can
tell, those characters are
accent grave
backslash
circumflex
curly braces
dollar sign
exclamation point
number sign
square brackets
tilde
vertical bar
I realize that this list conflicts with some common usage, but
it would be helpful to avoid introducing any new usage.
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