A reminder of the original design goal of Markdown - my personal thoughts

[John Gruber]

A. Pagaltzis <pagaltzis at gmx.de> wrote on 9/6/05 at 6:03 AM:


> That particular question is not the issue. Per RFC, Unicode

> characters go into URIs as regular URI-escaped UTF-8. John’s

> stars would be %e2%98%85 f.ex.


It's not a question of being able to generate them, programatically, in
such a way that they're valid. It's a question of how an author would
know what to link to.

    ## Option-8 for •

and then later on, when I want to link to that header, I'd have to know that in URI-speak that's:

    option-8for%E2%80%A2

-J.G.