Re: [MOO-Discuss] Non-Printable Characters in Strings

[Luke-Jr <lu...@ar...>]

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On Wednesday 28 January 2004 12:51 am, Luke-Jr wrote:
> Is C-style escaping of common characters (\n, \r, \t, \v, \x##, etc) a go=
od
> idea? Including C-style's \### which uses octal or should \### use decimal
> (or hex?)?
Also, if number-based escaping is used, should it be octet-based or=20
character-based?
Character-based would translate the value to UTF-8 and could accept a=20
variable-length number up to a 16-bit value. For example, \xFFFF, \d65535,=
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\o200000, \xFF, \xF \x (for a null character). (Using variable-length numbe=
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would, of course, be discouraged since it could easilly create bugs if the=
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character following the escaped one was a valid digit).
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