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

Stephane Bortzmeyer said:
> I may be blind but I do not see a discussion about how to escape the
> escape sequence. For instance, when discussing the XML standard
> (&#nnnn;), there is no mention that it requires a way to write a bare
> & (&).
> 
> In the same way, if you use the \unnnn standard, how do you ensure
> that you can still write a real \u string if you want it?

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

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