Switch Compose.pre files into a different source format
Moving out the discussion here !224 (comment 2005803) so we can discuss this independently, copy-pasted from that thread:
Relying on spaces is not robust. I would advocate for some prefix, such as
*
orCJK:
; or surrounding with some brackets, such as:<YUAN / WEN>
.
I should've thought of that yesterday but: the
Compose.pre
files are just source artifacts. If someone had the motivation we could switch those to e.g. YAML or TOML at which point both editing and checking it for correctness would be significantly simpler. And this way we can add extra comments at will for human consumption that don't need to be parsed.