Internationalization Core Working Group Issue Tracker scripsit: > It's not clear why the \U form should take eight hex digits when the > first two are required to be 0. Because C++ did it and everybody follows them. It's better if all languages have the same representation of strings, even if it's not a very good one. -- First known example of political correctness: John Cowan After Nurhachi had united all the other http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Jurchen tribes under the leadership of the cowan@ccil.org Manchus, his successor Abahai (1592-1643) issued an order that the name Jurchen should --S. Robert Ramsey, be banned, and from then on, they were all The Languages of China to be called Manchus.Received on Friday, 7 September 2012 15:53:51 UTC
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