Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes

[Andreas Schwab]

Aidan Kehoe <address@hidden> writes:

>  Ar an triochadú lá de mí Aibréan, scríobh Andreas Schwab: 
>
>  > Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>  > 
>  > > I think it would be better to put an explicit terminator into
>  > > the construct.  Perhaps #.  So you would write "\u123#As I walked"
>  > 
>  > There is already the possibility to use `\ ' as a terminator.
>
> I don’t understand what you mean there--I imagine Richard meant a terminator
> that would not be interpreted as part of the succeeding string, something
> not the case for the space character.

`\ ' is ignored in a string (*Note (elisp)Non-ASCII in Strings::)

Andreas.

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