On Tue, Mar 5, 2024, at 16:42, Dragan Simic wrote:

May I ask why would we want the comment character to possibly be
a multibyte character?  I mean, I support localization, to make it all
easier for the users who opt not to use English, but wouldn't allowing
multibyte characters for the comment character simply be a bit unneeded?

Maybe I'm missing something?

Personally I think it’s okay. `%` for example is a good candidate since
you seldom use that as a leading character in prose (after a
whitespace), and it seems that `%` is often recommended as an
alternative.

But if it doesn’t make the code more complex: why not? (I just
personally don’t have a use-case.)