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

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Mon, 22 January 2007 09:28 UTC

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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:28:28 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net>
Subject: Re: Escaping the escape (Was: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-00.txt
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:03:45AM +0000,
 Clive D.W. Feather <clive@demon.net> wrote 
 a message of 17 lines which said:

> To write the string "\u1234", you write "\u005Cu1234". Isn't that
> obvious enough not to need stating?

It was not obvious to me, I did not even think of it (\\u1234 seemed
more reasonable).