Re: I18N-ISSUE-187: escape syntax [TURTLE]

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.

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