Arcane Jill <arcanejill at ramonsky dot com> wrote: > It's just an escape sequence - like prefixing a character with backslash > when inside a string constant. Does that make it non-conformant? Is the > common practice of replacing quote with backslash-quote in string constants > non-conformant, because backslash isn't a PUA character? If so, I stand > suitably chastised, but if not, there is nothing supernatural about using > magic-numbers, signature-bytes, etc., to identify an escape sequence. I > simply chose a string longer than "\" (and therefore less likely to occur by > accident).
You're right, it is just an escape sequence. I stand corrected. Frankly I don't care what Lars chooses to do internally with his data. It's his business, as long as he does not leak his almost-but-not-quite-UTF-8 scheme into the outside world and label it an "extension" or "adaptation" of UTF-8, and especially as long as he doesn't try to get it recognized as such by Unicode. That's what happened with CESU-8, and it's not right. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
