At 09:29 01/04/17 -0500, jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com wrote:
> > In a perfect world, we would probably have an enclosing symbol (e.g.
> > '\<4E00>') so that the number can be variable length.
>
><tuning into another language channel>
>In Perl the notation is \x{...}, where ... is hexdigit sequence:
>\x{41} is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A while \x{263a} is WHITE SMILING FACE,
>and \x{1D400} is MATHEMATICAL BOLD CAPITAL A.
And in XML it's 一 which can also be variable length.
There is also &#ddddd; where ddddd is a decimal number, but
that's not that useful anymore now that standards use hexadecimal.
Regards, Martin.
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