Re: [QUERY] Support Unicode escapes in the Lisp reader, à la Java
Ar an fichiú lá de mí Aibréan, scríobh Jerry James:
What version of Java has the \U escapes?
C# ...
(Yeah, I wrote the code long before sending the email.)
The language specification
says that only lower-case 'u' is a Unicode escape:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/lexical.html#3.3
and that representing supplementary characters requires two consecutive
\u escapes (because Java means "UTF-16" when it says "Unicode").
Well, we don’t want to do that!
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