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Will be available in Textastic 2.1
This is fixed for Textastic 2.1.
Thanks, I will try to implement this.
I'll fix this in the next update. I can confirm that Good Reader renders it correctly while Textastic doesn't at the moment.
Interesting idea! I'll consider it.
Yesterday I got my first answer from the US Department of Commerce... yay! After nearly two months... Still waiting for the login to their SNAP-R interface, though. I had to sent a statement which "item" I want to export and to which country. I submitted the info and am now waiting for an answer...
I just tried to reproduce this by creating a small php file with a single line comment. For me, this works. Here's a screenshot: http://www.textasticapp.com/support/php_comment.png

Maybe this is a problem with a special case in your file? Can you please send me a screenshot illustrating the problem? The file itself may help, too.