Markdown Discuss - Jul 2017 - an interesting throwaway line

gruber posted about markdown
on his daringfireball blog, which
is rare enough to be noticeable.


but it became fully remarkable
when its final sentence made a
passing reference to a possible
"update to markdown" event --
as if such a revision isn't a thing
he's always steadfastly refused.


this isn't a reading of tea-leaves.


it is a sudden jarring appearance
of tea-leaves in a place they have
never ever appeared before now.


-bowerbird


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On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 1:16 PM, bowerbird via Markdown-Discuss <
markdown-discuss at six.pairlist.net> wrote:
> gruber posted about markdown
> on his daringfireball blog, which
> is rare enough to be noticeable.
>
> but it became fully remarkable
> when its final sentence made a
> passing reference to a possible
> "update to markdown" event --
> as if such a revision isn't a thing
> he's always steadfastly refused.
>
> this isn't a reading of tea-leaves.
>
> it is a sudden jarring appearance
> of tea-leaves in a place they have
> never ever appeared before now.
>
> -bowerbird
>
Well, this *is* interesting! Here's the link, for easy reference:
https://daringfireball.net/2017/07/unordered_lists_in_markdown
Mostly it's a discussion of bulleted list styles, but the relevant quote is
in the last paragraph:
> But at the time, character-encoding mismatches were still a daily
problem. Today, UTF-8 is sufficiently universal that using such characters
in an update to Markdown would probably work out fine.

-- 
The views expressed above are exclusively mine, if anyone's.
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