From: Bjoern Hoehrmann (derhoermi@gmx.net)
Date: Thu Apr 16 2009 - 20:00:05 CDT
* Sam Mason wrote:
>I've got myself in a discussion about the correct handling of surrogate
>pairs. The background is as follows; the Postgres database server[1]
>currently assumes that the SQL it's receiving is in some user specified
>encoding, and it's been proposed that it would be nicer to be able to
>enter Unicode characters directly in the form of escape codes in a
>similar form to Python, i.e. support would be added for:
>
> '\uxxxx'
>and
> '\Uxxxxxxxx'
I think you would be better of doing it similar to Perl, which uses ex-
plicit delimiters for the value. This has a number of benefits: you can
parse it case-insensitively, there is no confusion if you, for example,
want U+AFFE followed by the literal "AFFE", there is no confusion as to
what the required length is (some formats allow only six digits), it is
extendable (with Perl you can also use character names, alias names,
etc.), and the answer to your question is more obvious. Perl generates a
warning if you specify surrogate code points.
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