Re: Unicode string literals versus the world - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Unicode string literals versus the world
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Msg-id 49E47D4E.3020006@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Unicode string literals versus the world  (Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Unicode string literals versus the world
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Marko Kreen wrote:
> I still stand on my proposal, how about extending E'' strings with
> unicode escapes (eg. \uXXXX)?  The E'' strings are already more
> clearly defined than '' and they are our "own", we don't need to
> consider random standards, but can consider our sanity.
>
>   

I suspect there would be lots more support in the user community, where 
\uXXXX is well understood in a number of contexts (Java and ECMAScript, 
for example). It's also tolerably sane.

cheers

andrew


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