Re: [RFC] Unicode Escape Syntax
| From: | Alain Williams | Date: | Mon, 24 Nov 2014 23:45:25 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Unicode Escape Syntax | ||
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:36:28PM +0000, Andrea Faulds wrote:
>
> > On 24 Nov 2014, at 23:29, Alain Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
> > echo "\U{arabic letter alef}\n”;
>
> Ooh, that’s an interesting idea. I believe Perl actually has this already, although it uses
> the \N syntax:
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> http://perldoc.perl.org/perlreref.html#ESCAPE-SEQUENCES
>
> Is something like that what you have in mind?
Exactly.
Confession: it was looking at the perl documentation that led me to suggest it.
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