RE: How will software source code represent 21 bit unicode charac ters?

2001-04-17 Thread jarkko . hietaniemi
In a perfect world, we would probably have an enclosing symbol (e.g. '\4E00') so that the number can be variable length. tuning into another language channel In Perl the notation is \x{...}, where ... is hexdigit sequence: \x{41} is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A while \x{263a} is WHITE SMILING FACE,

RE: How will software source code represent 21 bit unicode charac ters?

2001-04-17 Thread Yves Arrouye
Has this matter already been addressed anywhere? I think the C standard is in the process of making a decision about this. If memory helps, we will have escapes like '\u' and '\U'. I think they made the decision already. It is in the latest editions of the standards. The only

RE: How will software source code represent 21 bit unicode charac ters?

2001-04-17 Thread Carl W. Brown
assume so. Carl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Yves Arrouye Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 8:30 AM To: 'Marco Cimarosti'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'William Overington' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How will software source code represent 21 bit