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Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes |
Date: |
Fri, 05 May 2006 13:39:10 +0300 |
> From: Aidan Kehoe <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 18:41:17 +0200
> Cc: , address@hidden
>
> > I think one relevant question is to what extent the C and Emacs Lisp
> > string syntax are compatible in the first place. Emacs Lisp string
> > syntax was largely based on C string syntax in 1984, but I don't know
> > how C has developed since 1990. Can someone report on this question?
>
> The \u syntax (with a fixed number of digits) came into wide use with Java
> in 1996. The necessity for the \U extension arose with progress towards
> version 3.0 of Unicode and its ~1.1 million available code points. That
> version of the standard was released in 1999; the C99 ISO standard for C of
> the same year included both \u and \U. Various other C-oriented programming
> languages have incorporated the syntax since.
I think Richard was asking for a simple summary of the current C
string syntax, with special emphasis on the standard escapes. \u and
\U are only part of the story.
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/05/02
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Kenichi Handa, 2006/05/02
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/05/03
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Stefan Monnier, 2006/05/03
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/05/03
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Ken Raeburn, 2006/05/03
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Richard Stallman, 2006/05/04
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Aidan Kehoe, 2006/05/04
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Aidan Kehoe, 2006/05/05
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Richard Stallman, 2006/05/05
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Aidan Kehoe, 2006/05/05
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Aidan Kehoe, 2006/05/05
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Richard Stallman, 2006/05/06
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Aidan Kehoe, 2006/05/06
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Richard Stallman, 2006/05/07
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Aidan Kehoe, 2006/05/07
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, David Kastrup, 2006/05/07
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes, Aidan Kehoe, 2006/05/07