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

Stephane Bortzmeyer said:
>> To write the string "\u1234", you write "\u005Cu1234". Isn't that
>> obvious enough not to need stating?
> 
> It was not obvious to me, I did not even think of it (\\u1234 seemed
> more reasonable).

Sorry, I was a bit terse there.

You can always do things by escaping the \ using the same notation; that
seemed obvious enough not to need stating.

I agree that \\ is easier to read, but it might not be compatible with
other uses of \ in the protocol this is going into. As such, it might be
seen as inappropriate to require it. However, we could add it as a MAY.

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