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@@ -524,7 +524,9 @@ Lexical syntax
Ninja is mostly encoding agnostic, as long as the bytes Ninja cares
about (like slashes in paths) are ASCII. This means e.g. UTF-8 or
-ISO-8859-1 input files ought to work.
+ISO-8859-1 input files ought to work. (To simplify some code, tabs
+and carriage returns are currently disallowed; this could be fixed if
+it really mattered to you.)
Comments begin with `#` and extend to the end of the line.