From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jonathan Yavner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:16:56 -0400 Message-ID: <200604301716.56307.jyavner@member.fsf.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146431842 6499 80.91.229.2 (30 Apr 2006 21:17:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:17:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 30 23:17:20 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 1FaJI4-0001wN-1X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:17:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FaJI3-0001ng-Gl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:17:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FaJHt-0001nR-DN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:17:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FaJHp-0001nF-Md for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:17:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FaJHp-0001nC-I8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:17:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [204.127.192.84] (helo=rwcrmhc14.comcast.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FaJLU-0001DS-Vd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:20:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.254] (c-68-45-81-14.hsd1.nj.comcast.net[68.45.81.14]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc14) with ESMTP id <20060430211700m1400rst9be>; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:17:00 +0000 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline 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:53695 Archived-At: Richard wrote: >I don't like having both \u and \U--it is ugly. > I think it would be better to put an explicit terminator into > the construct. =C2=A0Perhaps #. =C2=A0So you would write "\u123#As I walk= ed" That would be nonstandard. Standards are better, even if ugly. http://ftp.python.org/doc/ref/strings.html http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_chapter/coreutils_15.html et cetera, et cetera