\uxxxx and \UXXXXXXXX formats (or universal character names ) are part of C99 
standard.

Aki

On Apr 19, 2010, at 6:11 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote:

> 
> On Apr 19, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Matt Neuburg <m...@tidbits.com> wrote:
>>> Supposing you were a complete C / Objective-C beginner. How would you find
>>> out what escape sequences are permitted in an NSString literal (that is,
>>> with @"...")? For example, K&R doesn't know about \uNNNN (backslash-u
>>> followed by four hex digits), but of course that is now legal (though it was
>>> not always). What documentation would tell the user about this? Thx - m.
>> 
>> I use the printf(3) manpage.
> 
> That's good on format-strings and stuff you can do with %, but that isn't 
> what I'm asking about. I'm asking about straightforward NSString literals, 
> such as @"this\nsort\tof\u2022thing". You can learn about the \n and \t from 
> K&R, but how would you learn about 
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