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- Subject: Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Plea for the support of unicode escape sequences
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:59:31 +0200
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Dirk Laurie <dpl@sun.ac.za> wrote:
> _u[["A smiley: \u263a, an en-dash: \u2013, an ellipsis: \u2026"]]
>
> returns
>
> "A smiley: ☺, an en-dash: –, an ellipsis: …"
>
> seems to make a lot more sense.
Yes, and it's possible to do it efficiently in a library. So adding it
to the language is unnecessary.
steve d.
