Unicode Character 'BULLET' (U+2022)

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A summary of the discussion thus far:

Pros

  1. Trivial to implement
  2. Produces the expected output when • are in the input.

Cons

  1. It is hard to type for some users
  2. • cannot be encoded in an ascii string.
  3. It may confuse a novice user when editing a documents with • and may make markdown harder to learn.

My 2 Cents:

Cons 1 and 2 are minor. There is some existing useage of the bullet character already, and the markdown spec is encoding agnositc anyway (I believe there is consensus here). Since the feature is trivial to implement. That leaves Con 3 and Pro 2 which both address core aspects of markdown design phillosophy. It is not at all clear to me which is the better / more important arguement (who knows what actual users are like?). Probably either choice is ok.

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