From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 10:17:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: <17491.34779.959316.484740@parhasard.net> <87odyfnqcj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146752391 21542 80.91.229.2 (4 May 2006 14:19:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 14:19:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kehoea@parhasard.net, handa@m17n.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 04 16:19:45 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 1Fbefq-0007PA-JP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 16:19:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fbefp-0000LX-PC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 10:19:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fbedx-0007qG-Bm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 10:17:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fbedw-0007pr-NS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 10:17:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fbedw-0007ph-CH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 10:17:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FbeeZ-0007gJ-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 10:18:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Fbedv-0002Cd-3W; Thu, 04 May 2006 10:17:23 -0400 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 03 May 2006 21:26:23 +0300) 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:53906 Archived-At: Regarding \u: the question is whether an Emacs escape for Unicode characters should be compatible with C string syntax for Unicode characters, or coherent with the Emacs \x escape. I think one relevant question is to what extent the C and Emacs Lisp string syntax are compatible in the first place. Emacs Lisp string syntax was largely based on C string syntax in 1984, but I don't know how C has developed since 1990. Can someone report on this question?