Re: Plea for the support of unicode escape sequences

[Xavier Wang <weasley.wx@...>]

在 2011-6-29 上午11:28，"Tom N Harris" <telliamed@whoopdedo.org>写道：
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> On 06/28/2011 04:24 PM, Lorenzo Donati wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> How about supporting escape sequences greater than 255 when sizeof(char)>1 ?
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> --
> - tom
> telliamed@whoopdedo.org
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As ISO C Standard specified, the size of char is always 1.