Re: Consistent escape mechanism for Unicode characters?

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Ethan Merritt wrote:
> For example
> 	set label "Planks's constant = ℏ"

> Would it be reasonable to make this same form acceptable to the
> wxt, post, x11 and other terminals?

I doubt it.  The SGML group of formats is quite alone in using '&' as an 
escape character.  Exporting this usage to other formats is bound to 
create tons of problem --- for starters, we already use it in enhanced 
text to signify "phantom" whitespace.

I tend to think Java's \u210f would make more sense, particularly 
because it would be a better fit into our overall C-based escape 
character scheme.