Re: Question about \uxxxx etc. for 21-bit code points - need advice

From: Markus Scherer (markus.scherer@jtcsv.com)
Date: Tue May 23 2000 - 18:46:57 EDT


jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com wrote:
> > What does Perl do?
> >
> > markus
>
> In Perl regular expressions are (most often) in "double-quoted context",
> meaning
> that variables are expanded.
> ...

OK, so \w in Perl matches for word-characters or similar.

> If the context is C, the suggested \x{yyyy} would be the nicest: because it
> would
> be easily extensible, it's because unambiguous, and because Perl already
> does the same :-)

"would" means that Perl does not have any syntax for Unicode escapes, or no syntax for escapes above U+ffff?

> --
> Jarkko Hietaniemi <jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com>

markus



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