Re: Arbritary characters (like colons) in node names (proposal)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 18:49:39 +0100
> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > It's okay not to solve the cases where an Info file use ^_ (I don't
> > think you will find any of these, for this very reason).  But I don't
> > think we can just disregard the control characters that do no harm
> > today, because an Info reader that will try interpreting them as a
> > quote might do some very wrong things with them, or even crash.  IMO,
> > if we want the solution to stand the test of time, it should provide
> > some way of having "harmless" control characters in the file, without
> > interpreting them as quotes.
> 
> The control characters would only be interpreted as quotes in
> particular contexts. Any outside those contexts would be left as they
> are.

How do you know you are in that particular context?  Isn't that the
very problem that causes the problems with colons?