Re: Plea for the support of unicode escape sequences

[Ico <lua@...>]

* On Tue Jun 28 21:08:10 +0200 2011, Edgar Toernig wrote:
 
> As it's the last chance for probably 5 or 6 years to ask for it:
> 
> Could the next version have support for Unicode escape sequences?
> (like "A smiley: \u263a, an en-dash: \u2013, an ellipsis: \u2026")

Could you just not enter the literal UTF-8 symbol into your strings?
Any decent editor supports UTF-8 these days, so there should be no need
for special encoding of these characters ? ☺ is easier to read then
\u263a, imho.

Ico


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