Re: [relax-ng] Java-style Unicode escapes

From
James Clark <>
Date
2002-04-08T12:58:30+00:00
ID
359213591.1018295828@[192.168.0.68]
Thread
Re: [relax-ng] Java-style Unicode escapes
> Perl uses \x{N}, so we might want to consider that instead of \u{N}.

Two reasons why one might prefer \x to \u:

1. XML uses "x" to introduce hex char refs.

2. If we use \u, people may be surprised that it it is followed by an 
argument in braces rather than 4 hex digits as in Java.

James