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Re: Escaping the escape (Was: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-00.t: msg#00016

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

Clive D.W. Feather schrieb:
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?

I would understand "obvious" as "the first thing I can think of". Under that assumption, I would find it obvious if "\\u" would do the trick, thus any backslash needs to be escaped.

Best regards, Julian




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