Re: Question about \uxxxx etc. for 21-bit code points - need advice

From: Markus Scherer (markus.scherer@jtcsv.com)
Date: Tue May 23 2000 - 15:40:23 EDT


jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com wrote:
> 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>

Well, the context would be to have test strings and resource bundle entries with such numeric character references.
Example:
resourceTag "NBSP \xa0, Euro \u20ac, and some plane 1 code point \w010330."

What does Perl do?

markus



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