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

"Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net> Mon, 22 January 2007 09:31 UTC

Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:31:37 +0000
From: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net>
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
Subject: Re: Escaping the escape (Was: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-00.txt
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Stephane Bortzmeyer 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).

Sorry, I was a bit terse there.

You can always do things by escaping the \ using the same notation; that
seemed obvious enough not to need stating.

I agree that \\ is easier to read, but it might not be compatible with
other uses of \ in the protocol this is going into. As such, it might be
seen as inappropriate to require it. However, we could add it as a MAY.

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FWD: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-00.… John C Klensin
Re: FWD: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes… Keith Moore
Re: FWD: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes… Keith Moore
Re: FWD: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes… John C Klensin
Escaping the escape (Was: I-D ACTION:draft-klensi… Stephane Bortzmeyer
Re: FWD: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes… Clive D.W. Feather
Re: FWD: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes… Clive D.W. Feather
Re: Escaping the escape (Was: I-D ACTION:draft-kl… Clive D.W. Feather
Re: Escaping the escape (Was: I-D ACTION:draft-kl… Julian Reschke
Re: FWD: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes… Stephane Bortzmeyer
Re: Escaping the escape (Was: I-D ACTION:draft-kl… Stephane Bortzmeyer
Re: Escaping the escape (Was: I-D ACTION:draft-kl… Clive D.W. Feather
Re: FWD: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes… John C Klensin
Re: FWD: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes… Clive D.W. Feather