Re: Escaping the escape (Was: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-00.txt

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

Clive D.W. Feather schrieb:
> Stephane Bortzmeyer said:
>> I may be blind but I do not see a discussion about how to escape the
>> escape sequence. For instance, when discussing the XML standard
>> (&#nnnn;), there is no mention that it requires a way to write a bare
>> & (&).
>>
>> In the same way, if you use the \unnnn standard, how do you ensure
>> that you can still write a real \u string if you want it?
> 
> To write the string "\u1234", you write "\u005Cu1234". Isn't that obvious
> enough not to need stating?

I would understand "obvious" as "the first thing I can think of". Under 
that assumption, I would find it obvious if "\\u" would do the trick, 
thus any backslash needs to be escaped.

Best regards, Julian