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

[John C. <co...@cc...>]

Albert Graef scripsit:

> If so, then the remaining question is which syntax are we going to use
> in strings for that? I suggest something like \φ, as in:

I like that.

Be aware that entity names are case-sensitive (unlike Unicode names which
are all upper case) and that valid characters in names are A-Z, a-z, 0-9,
and full stop.  In principle, minus sign and underscore are also allowed,
but are not in fact used.

> "The greek letter \φ is the 21st letter in the Greek alphabet."

Will these be allowed in all places (identifiers as well as strings)?
I would say yes: def \π = 3.141592653

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