From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: bug#4848: 23.1.50; \u and \x in string Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:39:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org, 4848@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257256202 8630 80.91.229.12 (3 Nov 2009 13:50:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:50:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, 4848@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 03 14:49:55 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N5Jli-0007P2-Rb for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:49:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51777 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N5Jli-00057E-Av for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:49:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N5JjK-00045T-GL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:47:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N5JjE-00042p-EO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:47:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56643 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N5JjE-00042h-5D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:47:20 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:44086) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N5JjC-0001iz-EG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:47:18 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id nA3DlGMQ019494; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 05:47:16 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nA3Dj4kr019217; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 05:45:04 -0800 Resent-Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 05:45:04 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Richard Stallman Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs 2Resent-Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:45:04 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 4848 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B.125725554318782 (code B ref -1); Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:45:04 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 3 Nov 2009 13:39:03 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [140.186.70.10]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id nA3Dd1DJ018761; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 05:39:02 -0800 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1N5JbA-0006xB-8N; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:39:00 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:17:10 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:47:24 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:32387 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:25163 Archived-At: > "\ue1" gives the error "Non-hex digit used for Unicode escape". > Why doesn't it work to give the Unicode character รก? I think you mean \u00e1 Why shouldn't \ue1 work? > Note that \xe1 does not work for this any more. Indeed, this refers to the byte 225 rather than to the char 225. This needs to be documented. But is it a good meaning for \x? It will rarely be useful this way. Also, is it an incompatible change?