Re: 4.1.2.3. String Constants with Unicode Escapes

čt 27. 8. 2026 v 16:58 odesílatel Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
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> čt 27. 8. 2026 v 16:48 odesílatel David G. Johnston <
> david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> napsal:
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>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 10:20 AM PG Doc comments form <
>> noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
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>>> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
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>>> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/sql-syntax-lexical.html
>>> Description:
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>>> >> The following less trivial example writes the Russian word “slon”
>>> (elephant) in Cyrillic letters:
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>>> Why are you tagging the word “elephant” with a country? This word is
>>> written
>>> in Cyrillic characters, which are used in many countries:
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>>> Why do you consider it Russian?
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>> The word "slon" is Russian. It seems unhelpful for the example to
>> specify what other languages may also have incorporated the word "slon"
>> into their vocabulary. To not specify at least one language as containing
>> "slon" also seems unhelpful.
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> Slon is slavic word. Almost all slavic languages use the same word -
> Czech, Polish, Slovak, ... and in this case it is not taken from Russian
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But I agree, so in this case, the etymology of this word is not important

Regards

Pavel

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> Pavel
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>> David J.
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