On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:53 AM, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote: > 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. Turtle's is inherited from Python, but I believe Python's is from C++ > > -- > 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 16:37:48 UTC
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