Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 08:10:54AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Marko Kreen wrote:
I still stand on my proposal, how about extending E'' strings with
unicode escapes (eg. \uXXXX)? The E'' strings are already more
clearly defined than '' and they are our "own", we don't need to
consider random standards, but can consider our sanity.
I suspect there would be lots more support in the user community, where
\uXXXX is well understood in a number of contexts (Java and ECMAScript,
for example). It's also tolerably sane.
By the way, that's an example of how to do it wrong, there are more
than 2^16 unicode characters, you want to be able to support the full
21-bit range if you're going to do it right.
FWIW, I prefer the perl syntax which simply extends \x: \x{1344}, which
makes it clear it's hex and doesn't make assumptions as to how many
characters are used.
I could live with either. Wikipedia says: "The characters outside the
first plane usually have very specialized or rare use." For years we
rejected all characters beyond the first plane, and while that's fixed
now, the volume of complaints wasn't huge.
cheers
andrew
Have a nice day,
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