> unicode:"\ab" is illegal No way. "Unicode" "\ab" should represent U+00AB. I don't care what the byte-level representation is. In UTF-8, that's 0xc2 0xab; in UTF-16BE it's 0x00 00ab; in UTF-32LE it's 0xab 0x00 0x00 0x00.
> I think that there is still some confusion between the encoding of source code > with the desired meaning in the charset and the internal encoding of parrot, > which might be UCS2 or anything. IMESHO, the encoding of the source code should have no bearing on the interpretation of string literal escape sequences within that source code. "\ab" should mean U+00AB no matter whether the surrounding source code is UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, Big-5, whatever; if the source language wants to work differently, it's up to its parser to convert. -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
