From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 12:41:19 +0900 Message-ID: <87y7xm5s4g.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <17491.34779.959316.484740@parhasard.net> <17492.29148.246942.842300@parhasard.net> <17493.12935.604847.524198@parhasard.net> <87u08a7c44.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87hd4acuey.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146454912 28031 80.91.229.2 (1 May 2006 03:41:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 03:41:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Aidan Kehoe , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 01 05:41:50 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FaPI6-0008Ih-N2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 05:41:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FaPI6-0003Az-9V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:41:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FaPHr-00038c-Cp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:41:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FaPHp-00035w-UZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:41:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FaPHp-00035f-Q6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:41:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [203.216.5.72] (helo=smtp02.dentaku.gol.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FaPLX-00024i-Bz; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:45:15 -0400 Original-Received: from 203-216-96-138.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.96.138] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1FaPHk-0000OQ-Il; Mon, 01 May 2006 12:41:20 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0E7092F56; Mon, 1 May 2006 12:41:19 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Stefan Monnier System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <87hd4acuey.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:12:13 -0400") Original-Lines: 15 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:53707 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > Currently The syntax for \xNNNN hexadeciaml escapes is that it ends whenever > reaching a non-hexadecimal char, and if you need your \xNNN escape to be > followed by an hexidecimal char, then you have to seprate the two with "\ " > (and the Lisp printer does that automatically, of course). > Is there a strong reason not do use the same rule for \u ? That might be sufficient for programmatic output, but anything involving a significant space seems problematic in general... -Miles -- x y Z!