From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, 4848@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4848: 23.1.50; \u and \x in string
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:57:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1N5rb1-0001Zv-HJ@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwviqdr4quz.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:49:54 -0500)
> Why shouldn't \ue1 work?
Because the \u format is \uNNNN with exactly 4 hex digits.
In other words, "it doesn't work because we decided it should't work".
But why should't it work? Why shouldn't two digits be allowed?
Is there a good reason not to allow that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-05 1:57 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
2009-11-03 13:39 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-03 14:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-05 1:57 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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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