[OT] Usage of U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN (was: generator slides review and Python doc (+/- text bug))

[Ben Finney]

Rotwang <sg552 at hotmail.co.uk> writes:

> Why on Earth would the [“¶”, U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN] correspond to an
> EOL? The section sign and pilcrow have a history of being used to
> refer to sections and paragraphs respectively, so using them for
> permalinks to individual sections of a web page makes perfect sense.

Symbols commonly have multiple meanings, derived from usage.

<URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilcrow#Contemporary_use>

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Ben Finney