Re: proposal: unescape_text function

út 1. 12. 2020 v 20:20 odesílatel Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>
napsal:

> >> po 30. 11. 2020 v 22:15 odesílatel Pavel Stehule <
> pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
> >> napsal:
> >>> I checked this and it is "prefix backslash-u hex" used by Java,
> >>> JavaScript or RTF -
> >>> https://billposer.org/Software/ListOfRepresentations.html
>
> If I look on that page, it appears that RTF is using a similar-looking
> escape but in decimal rather than hex.
>
> It would be important to define what is done with non-BMP characters?
> Will there be another escape for a six- or eight-hexdigit format for
> the codepoint, or will it be represented by two four-hexdigit escapes
> for consecutive UTF-16 surrogates?
>

the detection of decimal or hexadecimal codes can be a hard problem -
string "12" is valid in both systems, but the numbers are different. So
there should be external specification as an argument.

Regards

Pavel

> Regards,
> -Chap
>