On 2020-11-30 22:15, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> I would like some supporting documentation on this. So far we only
> have
> one stackoverflow question, and then this implementation, and they are
> not even the same format. My worry is that if there is not precise
> specification, then people are going to want to add things in the
> future, and there will be no way to analyze such requests in a
> principled way.
>
>
> I checked this and it is "prefix backslash-u hex" used by Java,
> JavaScript or RTF -
> https://billposer.org/Software/ListOfRepresentations.html
Heh. The fact that there is a table of two dozen possible
representations kind of proves my point that we should be deliberate in
picking one.
I do see Oracle unistr() on that list, which appears to be very similar
to what you are trying to do here. Maybe look into aligning with that.