From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
4848@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Cc: rms@gnu.org
Subject: bug#4848: 23.1.50; \u and \x in string
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:33:49 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEE8B5D.1000505@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwveiohmm8j.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> "\ue1" gives the error "Non-hex digit used for Unicode escape".
>> Why doesn't it work to give the Unicode character á?
>>
>
> I think you mean \u00e1
>
I think the error message means "Insufficient hex digits used for
Unicode escape".
>> Note that \xe1 does not work for this any more.
>>
>
> Indeed, this refers to the byte 225 rather than to the char 225.
>
>
> \x00e1 also works like \u00e1.
>
That is definitely confusing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-02 7:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-02 5:31 bug#4848: 23.1.50; \u and \x in string Richard Stallman
2009-11-02 7:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-02 7:33 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2009-11-03 13:39 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-03 14:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-05 1:57 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-05 2:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-03 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-05 1:56 ` Richard Stallman
2016-06-14 2:45 ` Noam Postavsky
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