I don't think that the character used is in itself that important here.
I'm all for dash/minus for single-level lists, for example.

-- [[Radomir Dopieralski]], 2007-Mar-08

"Space required only after a second-level bullet list item" doesn't correspond
to what's implied in [[BoldAndListsAmbiguity]]. That's what I'd implemented
first before failing the test cases, getting ashamed :-) and changing my engine...

A space is also required between stars used for lists and stars used
for bold. But I think it's the most obvious thing to do for authors, and it's easy
to specify it.

-- [[YvesPiguet]], 2007-Mar-08

Ah yes, I did phrase that incorrectly.  Fixing it now...

-- [[Chuck Smith]], 2007-Mar-08

Will we see an apropriate proposal page soon?

If there is no agreement, we could have several proposal pages, maybe, as long as they are properly described, explained and discussed.

For me, at least, it's still not just "Which character do we use for escaping?" but also "Do we need an escape character at all?" and "What's wrong with using nowiki or insering an empty {{{{{{~}}}}}}?".

-- [[Radomir Dopieralski]], 2007-Mar-08