Re: [q-lang-users] More Unicode queries.

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Rob Hubbard wrote:
> So the differences are: hex codes begin "\0x" rather than just "\x",
> and the numerals following the escape are read "hungrily", hence the
> need for parenthesis sometimes.

That's right. Maybe a note for C/Python/whatever language users is in
order to emphasize these differences.

> Perhaps you could emphasise these differences, and also give some
> Unicode examples, such as:

There are examples for all kinds of escapes in that section. However,
I'll gladly accept patches to the text (preferably in texi format, though).

> Finally, can the Unicode characters also be escaped by name?

No. Are there other languages which offer this?

Cheers,
Albert

-- 
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
Email:  Dr....@t-..., ag...@mu...
WWW:    http://www.musikinformatik.uni-mainz.de/ag