Re: Unicode escapes in literals - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: Unicode escapes in literals
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Msg-id 20081023162148.GG3413@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: Unicode escapes in literals  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: Unicode escapes in literals  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 06:04:43PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Man that's ugly.  Why the ampersand?
>
> Yeah, excellent question.  It seems completely unnecessary, but it is 
> surely there in the syntax diagram.

Probably because many Unicode representations are done with "U+"
followed by 4-6 hexadecimal units, but "+" is problematic for other
reasons (in some vendor's implementation)?

A

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