From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philipp Stephani
>>>>> 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}), bu= t it
> would be simpler to just adopt Perl's behavior (to a reasonable ex= tend) 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 \(\|\).