I would like to add the Local Variables comment block to my org file (for documentation purpose) without affecting the actual local variable values in that buffer.

Here is a minimum working example:

The problem with above is that the commas before the comments are seen in the export too.

The ASCII export looks like this:

If I instead have

the export looks fine (below) .. but then that corrupts the local variables in that buffer.

Can we please add support for comma escaped comments in source blocks?

Thanks.

Kaushal