On 2020-10-07 11:00, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> Since the idea originated from unescaping unicode string
> literals i.e.
> select unescape('Odpov\u011Bdn\u00E1 osoba');
>
> Shouldn't the built-in function support the above syntax as well?
>
>
> good idea. The prefixes u (4 digits) and U (8 digits) are supported
I don't really get the point of this function. There is AFAICT no
function to produce this escaped format, and it's not a recognized
interchange format. So under what circumstances would one need to use this?