Re: Unicode string literals versus the world

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Unicode string literals versus the world
Date: 2009-04-14 12:10:54
Message-ID: 49E47D4E.3020006@dunslane.net
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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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