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: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:57:07 -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 1257386859 13353 80.91.229.12 (5 Nov 2009 02:07:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 02:07:39 +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 Thu Nov 05 03:07:31 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 1N5rl5-00018P-0C for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:07:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51867 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N5rl4-0008JT-9k for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:07:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N5rky-0008IG-VT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:07:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N5rku-0008Gm-Ed for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:07:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51049 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N5rkt-0008GY-VU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:07:19 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:52168) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N5rks-0006IC-T9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:07:19 -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 nA527Gcl003029; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:07:16 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nA525ApK002801; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:05:10 -0800 Resent-Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:05:10 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Richard Stallman Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs 2Resent-Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:05:10 +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 4848-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B4848.12573862291396 (code B ref 4848); Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:05:10 +0000 Original-Received: (at 4848) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 5 Nov 2009 01:57:09 +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 nA51v7qT001391; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 17:57:09 -0800 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1N5rb1-0001Zv-HJ; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:57:07 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:49:54 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:07:24 -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:32416 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:25168 Archived-At: > Why shouldn't \ue1 work? Because the \u format is \uNNNN with exactly 4 hex digits. In other words, "it doesn't work because we decided it should't work". But why should't it work? Why shouldn't two digits be allowed? Is there a good reason not to allow that?