On 2020-11-30 22:15, Pavel Stehule wrote:
I would like some supporting documentation on this. So far we only
have
one stackoverflow question, and then this implementation, and they are
not even the same format. My worry is that if there is not precise
specification, then people are going to want to add things in the
future, and there will be no way to analyze such requests in a
principled way.
I checked this and it is "prefix backslash-u hex" used by Java,
JavaScript or RTF -
https://billposer.org/Software/ListOfRepresentations.html
Heh. The fact that there is a table of two dozen possible
representations kind of proves my point that we should be deliberate in
picking one.
I do see Oracle unistr() on that list, which appears to be very similar
to what you are trying to do here. Maybe look into aligning with that.