One more trick building on what Stuart suggested.

:replacements.U\+2603: ☃

[source,javascript]
[presubs="none"]
[postsubs="replacements"]
----
var str = 'U+2603';
----

(I tried to use \u2603 but the source highlighter grabs the \u).

-Dan



On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Dan Allen <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Stuart Rackham <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On 07/11/13 00:24, Dan Allen wrote:
>> > Hey Axel & Stuart,
>> >
>> > Another way is to enable the attributes subs on the listing block.
>> >
>> > By default, a listing block has the subs specialcharacters and callouts.
>> > You can modify this set as follows:
>> >
>> > [source,javascript]
>> > [subs="specialcharacters,attributes,callouts"]
>> > ----
>> > ... = '{cow}';
>> > ----
>> >
>> > Another option is to enable macros and use a pass:[] macro to allow the
>> > char reference to go through untouched. However, I've observed conflicts
>> > between escaped placeholders and syntax highlighting.
>>
>> You need to use postsubs instead of subs to ensure it's done after the
>> highlighter has executed (subs is an alias for presubs),
>
>
> Ah, right.
>
>
>
>> but that still
>> won't fix it because Attribute Entry values are substituted for special
>> characters (see 'Attribute Entries'
>> (http://asciidoc.org/userguide.html#X18)).
>>
>> Neither will putting pass:[&#x1F404;] in the listing because, again, the
>> highlighter will escape the ampersand.
>>
>> The only way I can think of to ensure the ampersand is not escaped is to
>> use a replacement e.g.
>>
>> :replacements.COW: &#x1F404;
>>
>> [source,javascript]
>> [presubs="none"]
>> [postsubs="replacements"]
>> ----
>> var str = 'COW';
>> ----
>>
>
> There's another way very similar to this approach:
>
> :cow: pass:[&#xF404;]
>
> [source,javascript]
> [postsubs="attributes"]
> ----
> var str = '{cow}';
> ----
>
> That's probably the safest way since it doesn't add global word
> replacements.
>
> (Attributes truly are life savers).
>
> -Dan
>
> --
> Dan Allen | http://google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen
>



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