>>>>> Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> writes:

> We should probably do whatever Perl does
> (http://perldoc.perl.org/charnames.html). I haven't checked in detail what
> is allowed by Perl (except that it allows \N{name} and \N{U+code}), but it
> would be simpler to just adopt Perl's behavior (to a reasonable extend) than
> trying to come up with our own syntax.

This is a pretty reasonable request, to avoid having to remember multiple
syntaxes as much as possible. My life is already shorter from having to
correct misuses of \(\|\).