> > A few comments on Addison's and Richard's comments below, and two new > items: > > Section 6.4, long form Unicode escape sequence: It's not clear why this should > take eight hex digits when the first two are required to be 0. I had the same thought, but went back and looked up recommendations. The eight-digit form is what C uses, even though it is wasteful. Cf. RFC 5137. > Also, the trend > seems to be going towards \u{xxxxx}: > http://norbertlindenberg.com/2012/05/ecmascript-supplementary- > characters/index.html#Escapes > http://unicode.org/reports/tr18/#Hex_notation Agreed. > > Section 6.4, both forms of Unicode escape sequence: The spec doesn't say at > what stage the escape sequences are converted to their corresponding > characters. Can \u0022 start or end a string literal (as it does in Java)? > I agree: the "when" issue is important. AddisonReceived on Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:02:20 UTC
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