<p>I agree with @chl. SO has a particular convention with its tags, just as CV does. Both are designed to suit different needs, so there's no reason to expect them to coincide. Matching SO convention in this area would break with the package-only convention that exists on CV, so this tag would be a peculiarity among tags. CV doesn't have the ambiguity problem with caret-as-text-character, meaning that there's no ambiguity on our side. This is exclusively an SO problem.</p>
