> On 25 Nov 2014, at 10:32, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, Sara Golemon wrote:
>
>> On the BMP versus SMP issue of \uXXXX styles, we addressed this in
>> PHP6 by making \u denote 4 hexit BMP codepoints, while \U denoted six
>> hexit codepoints. e.g. "\u1234" === "\U001234" I'd rather
>> follow this style than making \u special and different from hex and
>> octal notations by using braces.
>
> I agree with this fully. No need to reinvent a wheel (that we left
> behind on the road)…
The \u{} style has its advantages, like not being case-sensitive and being
clearly delimited, though. Plus, PHP 6 is dead, and non-BMP code points are
more important than ever.
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