On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)home.nl> wrote:
I'm personally wary of abusing the edit token too
much for this purpose.
\ and + are there because clients mangling those characters screw up big
time, whereas Unicode/IPA damage is fairly limited (unless you're
editing in a language that uses Unicode characters extensively, such as
German).
. . . or any other language than English. It's true that we needn't
block such people if they aren't going to screw anything up, but in
practice that's only likely for English, and most popular pages on
enwiki probably contain at least one Unicode character too.