On 7/18/24 1:59 PM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 18 Jul 2024, at 15:49, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>
>> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
>>> While not a standard the pilcrow [0] is, AFAICT from a bit of looking at other
>>> docs, commonly used for this. There is a lot of variability though so
>>> whichever we choose it will be wrong one for someone.
>>
>> I like this suggestion better because that's U+00B6, ie part of
>> LATIN-1, so it's *far* more likely to render correctly everywhere
>> than U+01F517 is. We could also consider the section sign §
>> (U+00A7).
>>
>> In any case, a tooltip would help reduce confusion.
>
> Looking a bit closer, the Python documentation does just this, a pilcrow with a
> tool-tip ("Link to this heading") when hovering over it
I forgot why we went with the "#" and not the (TIL the name) pilcrow
symbol, but I'm generally used to seeing the pilcrow when I browse docs
and may have voiced that at the time (though the record may show
otherwise). So +1 to that.
Thanks,
Jonathan
