Re: Unicode string literals versus the world

Marko Kreen wrote:
> I still stand on my proposal, how about extending E'' strings with
> unicode escapes (eg. \uXXXX)?  The E'' strings are already more
> clearly defined than '' and they are our "own", we don't need to
> consider random standards, but can consider our sanity.
>
>   

I suspect there would be lots more support in the user community, where 
\uXXXX is well understood in a number of contexts (Java and ECMAScript, 
for example). It's also tolerably sane.

cheers

andrew