From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: 4848@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4848: 23.1.50; \u and \x in string
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:48:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1vkd3cyu.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1N5rb1-0001Zv-HJ@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:57:07 -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?
I think the \u format is taken from C and it doesn't have an "end" like
our \x format has. So for example "\u11111" means (concat "\u1111" "1").
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-05 2:48 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
2009-11-05 2:48 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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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