Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Plea for the support of unicode escape sequences

[Edgar Toernig <froese@...>]

Dirk Laurie wrote:
> > 
> > Could the next version have support for Unicode escape sequences?
> > (like "A smiley: \u263a, an en-dash: \u2013, an ellipsis: \u2026")
> 
> Why not simply enter them as UTF-8 using your particular system's
> support for such characters?  
> 
> "A smiley: ☺, an en-dash: –, an ellipsis: …"
> 
> To enter these, I did not need to know the four-hexdigit codes:
> my system has an easier method.

Not everyone has an editor which a) supports unicode and b) allows
one to insert every possible codepoint, for example non-printable
codes like \u200b - zero-width-space.  And even if you can insert
them - you won't see them.  I would even say, that on most systems,
the majority of unicodes printable characters just produce a square.

Ciao, ET.