On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 18:26 +0300, Marko Kreen wrote: > Unicode escapes for extended strings. > > On 4/16/09, Marko Kreen <mark...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Reasons: > > > > - More people are familiar with \u escaping, as it's standard > > in Java/C#/Python, probably more.. > > - U& strings will not work when stdstr=off. > > > > Syntax: > > > > \uXXXX - 16-bit value > > \UXXXXXXXX - 32-bit value > > > > Additionally, both \u and \U can be used to specify UTF-16 surrogate > > pairs to encode characters with value > 0xFFFF. This is exact behaviour > > used by Java/C#/Python. (except that Java does not have \U) > > v3 of the patch: > > - convert to new reentrant lexer API > - add lexer targets to avoid fallback to default > - completely disallow \U\u without proper number of hex values > - fix logic bug in surrogate pair handling
This looks good to me. I'm implementing the surrogate pair handling for the U& syntax for consistency. Then I'll apply this. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
