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Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters |
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Thu, 3 Mar 2016 15:58:43 -0800 |
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On 03/03/2016 12:48 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Unicode's UTS#18 (http://unicode.org/reports/tr18/) proposes \N[NAME]
instead, albeit in the context of regular expressions. Perhaps we
should adopt that instead.
Sure, that works. Except as I read it, they're proposing curly braces, e.g.:
"Use Greek capital letters (\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA}\N{EN
DASH}\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA}) to denote figures."
Since Elisp caters to strings that cross line boundaries, it looks like
lread.c's read_escape should allow arbitrary nonempty white space in
places where the official Unicode name contains a single space.
- Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/03/03
- Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, John Wiegley, 2016/03/03
- RE: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, Drew Adams, 2016/03/03
- Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/03
- Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/03
- Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, Philipp Stephani, 2016/03/05
- Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, John Wiegley, 2016/03/05
- Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, Philipp Stephani, 2016/03/06
- Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/06
- Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, Philipp Stephani, 2016/03/06
- Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/06
- Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, Philipp Stephani, 2016/03/06
- Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/06