RE: Question about \uxxxx etc. for 21-bit code points - need advi ce

From: jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com
Date: Tue May 23 2000 - 15:07:18 EDT


> - How about - and I propose this here -
> \whhhhhh
> with, again, 6 hexadecimal digits?
> It is simple, and for English speakers it has the benefit of
> being mnemonic because of connotations with "wide" and the
> letter being called a "double u" - which is more than a "\u" :-)
> It is not used in C.
>
> - Should there be a delimited, variable-length form like
> \whh...h;
> or
> \w{hh...h}
> or similar, closer to HTML?

Uhhh...in what context do you propose this? At least in Perl context
it would conflict really badly as \w is a reserved regular expression
notation: a character class matching alphanumerics plus underscore.

-- 
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com>



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