Rotwang <sg...@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> -- \ “Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too | `\ long.” —Ogden Nash | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
