Re: Plea for the support of unicode escape sequences

[Tom N Harris <telliamed@...>]

On 06/28/2011 04:24 PM, Lorenzo Donati wrote:
> Unicode escape sequences are platform independent. They are useful for
> the same reasons why ASCII codes are useful, at least for people working
> with Unicode.

Technically, Lua doesn't even require ASCII, as the recent adventures 
with lctype.c have shown. Unicode is platform specific because not all 
platforms use the same encoding (UTF-8 vs UTF-16). And when Unicode 
isn't being used at all this will just be dead-weight in the parser.

How about supporting escape sequences greater than 255 when sizeof(char)>1 ?

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