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bug#4848: 23.1.50; \u and \x in string


From: Noam Postavsky
Subject: bug#4848: 23.1.50; \u and \x in string
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 22:45:33 -0400

"Non-ASCII In Strings" now (24.5) says the following which explains
about "\xN" producing unibyte characters.

   You can also use hexadecimal escape sequences (ā€˜\xNā€™) and octal
escape sequences (ā€˜\Nā€™) in string constants.  *But beware:* If a string
constant contains hexadecimal or octal escape sequences, and these
escape sequences all specify unibyte characters (i.e., less than 256),
and there are no other literal non-ASCII characters or Unicode-style
escape sequences in the string, then Emacs automatically assumes that it
is a unibyte string.  That is to say, it assumes that all non-ASCII
characters occurring in the string are 8-bit raw bytes.





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