On 9/02/2012, at 1:26 PM, Evan Laforge wrote:
How about § then? Surely at this late date we can allow ourselves *one* non-ASCII character? The very name of it (*section* sign) suggests taking a part; and if you are totally in love with dot, think of it as a dot with ponytails.
I suggest record的field, or record之field for the more classically minded. And why not some synonyms like recordのfield and recordकाfield, to be inclusive.
I chose the most available non-ASCII character I could find. Set the criterion to be "present in most ISO 8-bit character sets" and there are really only two candidates, section sign and degrees sign. That hardly opens flood-gates. It should certainly be limited to characters that do not occur in a word, ruling out record մաս field.