On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IMESHO, the encoding of the source code should have no bearing on the > interpretation of string literal escape sequences within that source > code. "\ab" should mean U+00AB no matter whether the surrounding > source code is UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, Big-5, whatever; if the source > language wants to work differently, it's up to its parser to convert. The HLL source must not be relevant here, if we a reach a clear spec will be plain easy for hll writers to generate the pir that gives the result they want and to use the rules for his sources that his languages imposes or allows. I think that the "Escaped are always codepoints" is the clean and consistent approach. -- Salu2
